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WHEN MOTHER NATURE SETS THE TABLE

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From the first woman and lesbian heading a Jewish seminary to the first openly gay Orthodox rabbi, five cross-generational leaders will share firsthand insights into their pioneering work at the intersections of religious and LGBT communities. Featuring Rabbis Sue Levi Elwell (Reform), Steven Greenberg (Orthodox), Deborah Waxman (Reconstructionist), and Aaron S. Weininger (Conservative). Moderated by Rebecca T. Alpert (Reconstructionist).

IN HER STAPLES column in Food & Drink this week, Carolyn Wyman connects the dots between the harsh weather that hit Long Beach Island last win ter and why a favorite entree at Chlöe restaurant hasn’t been on the menu as often as some fans of the dish would like. Wyman writes frequently for City Paper about signature dishes at some of the city’s well-established food establishments. That’s because she always likes to know what the chef thinks is special when she walks in the door.

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CB PUMPKIN BEER FESTIVAL Pumpkin beers, the everhumble opinions of some craft beer drinkers, push the limits of tasteful brewing: Extracts make them more like an alcoholic soda; foodcentric flavors relegate hops to a minor role, polluting the beer flavor. But pumpkin beer is an undeniably American creation, more so than bitingly bitter IPAs. Therefore, the CB Pumpkin Festival — allegedly the largest of its kind — is really a celebration of America, and not just of the 120-plus beers they’ll have on tap. 10/3,The Institute Bar, cbpumpkinfest. com.—Jenn Ladd

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PURE BATHING CULTURE Proud owners of one of the most beautifully meaningless, yet precisely evocative band names out there, this Portland (Oregon) duo introduces a newly beat-conscious synth-pop sheen to their second outing, Pray for Rain (Partisan). The results feel as dreamily luxe and lathery as ever, thanks in large part to Sarah Versprille’s airy, arresting warble.10/6, Boot & Saddle, bootandsaddlephilly. com. —K. Ross Hoffman

WENDELL PIERCE Actor Wendell Pierce helped bring the struggles of jazz musicians in postKatrina New Orleans to an HBO-sized audience as hapless trombonist Antoine Batiste in David Simon’s Treme. It was a part that hit close to home for the Crescent City native, whose family home — and its surrounding neighborhood — were wiped out in the storm, a story he recounts in his new book The Wind in the Reeds. 10/6, Parkway Central Library, freelibrary. org. —Shaun Brady

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SATANIC PANIC: BOOK LAUNCH AND VIDEO PRESENTATION Are you an ’80s kid? A conspiracy theorist? A friend of Old Scratch? If you answered yes to any of these questions, get to PhilaMOCA to hear essaycontributor Samm Deighan talk about the seasonally appropriate Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (Spectaular Optical). The col lec tion ex plores Christian hysteria about the satanic influence on pop culture, from heavy metal to comic books. 10/4, PhilaMOCA, philamoca.org —Cynthia Schemmer DESTROYER Perhaps best known as The New Pornographers’ most mysterious pornographer — always darting off-stage between songs! where does he go? — Dan Bejar is a captivating singer and songwriter in his own right. The latest record from his Destroyer side project, Poison Season (Merge), continues his explorations into orchestral and playful indie-pop.10/3, Underground Arts, undergroundarts.com. —Patrick Rapa

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PIONEER: Alex Hillman, cofounder of Indy Hall, is one of the partners building the city’s first co-living space, a South Kensington house that will focus on creating a community of people under one roof. HILLARY PETROZZIELLO

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The South Kensington K’House is designed to be more than roomies sharing the monthly rent. ALEX HILLMAN STOOD in the middle of Hope Street between Palmer Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue one morning this summer and surveyed the scene: a pile of black trash bags, pockets of litter and broken pieces of 2-by-4s slumped against a chain-link fence. Hillman, the affable, 32-year-old co-founder of Old City co-working space Indy Hall, pointed out the bags of trash

and the litter before quickly turning his eyes to the skeleton of a threebedroom house being built on Hope Street across from the heap of busted lumber. After it’s completed this fall, Hillman will move in, the first tenant of the first co-housing community in South Kensington, K’House. Pronounced “Ka-house,” a play on co-house, K’House is a project that Hillman and a partner, Kensington-

based construction firm Postgreen Homes, have been involved with since 2011. While there are a few cooperative living communities in the city, K’House will be Philadelphia’s first official cohouse, according to the national cohousing directory maintained by the nonprofit Cohousing Association of the United States. Co-housing got its start in Denmark in the 1960s before migrating across the Atlantic Ocean and popping up in the U.S. two decades later. But the basic parameters defining it have stayed roughly the same: a shared living community where residents not only live in proximity, but also eat meals together, divide costs of amenities like laundry facilities and hang out together outside of exquisitely pre-planned brunch dates. Being one of three residents in this new Hope Street house might seem like just a bespoke rooming arrangement, but Hillman assures there’s more to K’House than sharing the burden of monthly rent. “It’s living in a place with people who have your back, people who are looking out for you — having a common goal beyond just sharing space,” he says. To get to this point has taken about $100,000 in investment, raised from Indy Hall members and Hillman’s personal savings. (On his right arm, Hillman sports a tattooed JFDI — Just Fucking Do It — in black lettering.) How his experiment in urban co-housing will play out is now the question. What guarantees that Hillman hasn’t merely erected an adult dormitory in a rapidly changing neighborhood? After all, with K’House, Hillman is already bending the rules of co-housing significantly. Typical co-housing communities are made up of rings of individually owned condos built closely together, with parking on the outside and a common house at the center to optimize communal experiences. “We’re designing for sharing,” says Raines Cohen, a co-housing coach and community organizer who has lived in California’s Berkeley Cohousing community for 12 years. “It’s an old-fashioned, neighborhood type of living. This is an old-school sharing economy, what

we like to speak of as cooperative community — cooperative as an adjective, not just a noun.” Cohen says Philadelphia is ripe for this sort of shared living situation. Wissahickon Village Cohousing (WVC) in Mt. Airy was one homegrown attempt, but it sputtered this summer once the developer shared with members the final costs of building separate condominiums. “The costs of materials and the housing market in Mt. Airy had gone up, and it became too expensive for any of us,” says Elayne Blender, a former city employee who was preparing to sell her house with her husband and move into the co-housing community with about 20 other WVC members. Being in a dense urban neighborhood like Kensington precludes building this sort of co-housing, which makes K’House more akin to co-living, a style of communal living growing in popularity in places like San Francisco. However, co-living’s cooperative aspect is mainly economic. In the Bay Area, venture capital-chasing startup founders sometimes trade more than $1,300 for a bunk in a

‘It’s living in a place with people who have your back, people who are looking out for you — having a common goal beyond just sharing space.’ co-living house with a shared kitchen and living room. “Co-housing was originally intended to create community through collective ownership and decision-making,” wrote critic Susie Cagle in Pacific Standard in June. “Modern ‘co-working’ and ‘co-living’ arrangements may look like high-tech hippie houses, but they don’t subvert traditional ownership.” In other words, Silicon Valley co-living looks more like a co-working facility with shared amenities, plus beds. It’s the aesthetic of co-housing stripped of the ethos. Hillman stresses this is not what he wants for K’House: “Think of it like citizenship: If all you do is pay taxes and vote, the city doesn’t thrive.” Consider the hurdles that he and Postgreen Homes cleared to get to this

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point. They formed 1711 Howard Partners LP to assume ownership of what was originally designed as a six-bedroom, L-shaped building taking up three lots that are zoned for singlefamily homes. When Postgreen Homes sought a variance from the Zoning Board of Adjustment in March 2012 to do the construction, its request was denied, despite unanimous support from the South Kensington Community Partners neighborhood group. “This was the first of its kind in Philly, so there was nothing to point to,” says Postgreen Homes president Chad Ludeman. “The ZBA looked at it more like a boarding house or a rooming house.” Instead of scrapping the project, Hillman and Postgreen Homes adjusted their plans. Postgreen used two lots for a house and backyard, which it sold to a family that recently moved into South Kensington. The third lot on Hope Street, purchased for $75,000, was redesigned as the site of a smaller, three-bedroom K’House, which didn’t require a variance. Hillman says a pared-down co-house gives him the chance to work through the obvious questions. How much will it cost to live there? Market rate, says Hillman, who will pay rent to the LP. (Using data from Kwelia.com, monthly median rent for a 2,100 square-foot house in that part of Philly is $2,268.) How will his roommates be picked? All

Hillman knows for sure is there won’t be an application process. When he finally moves into K’House later this fall — he currently lives one block over on North Howard Street — Hillman plans to start hosting neighborhood events: bar be cues, outdoor movie screenings, anything that will bring his neighbors and his future housemates together. That, he says, will be the social infrastruct ure to ensure that K’House is more than a boutique construction project. “In the same way that Indy Hall is not about an office, this is not about a house. It’s never been about a house,” he says. “I’m not excited about building houses. I’m excited about building communities.” (editorial@citypaper.net)

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en journalists for City Paper fanned out across the streets of Philadelphia last weekend to capture in words and photos the impact of Pope Francis’ two-day visit, the capstone to the World Meeting of Families. What we witnessed was uplifting at times and frightening at others. How often do complete strangers sit together and talk openly about two sensitive topics — religion and immigration? At the same time, the swarm of police, the concrete barriers on our sidewalks and metal-detector checkpoints made us question how a religious-themed festival, with the blessing of government, could turn our city — the cradle of liberty — upside down. As for the rock-star pope, making his first visit to America, he continued to evolve as “a parish priest for the world,” or so said Dave Maynard of Collingswood, N.J., who was among the thousands who waited for him at Independence Hall. Wherever he went, Francis drew huge crowds as he espoused love, family and inclusion of all. He made news in Philly by meeting with prisoners and victims of sex abuse. Whether you got a glimpse of him dressed all in white rolling down city streets in his Popemobile or avoided Center City at all costs, those were two days you’re not likely to forget. Here are our dispatches from the street.

SATURDAY 18TH STREET AND THE PARKWAY • 6:30 A.M. A bar of concrete and oodles of police block Sister Mary Scullion from getting access to the grotto she helped create outside the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter and Paul. But after waving a paper with a list of

names, she persuades someone with clout to let most of her small group pass. While waiting at the barricade, Sister Mary practices her Spanish, because she has learned only recently that she might get to meet Pope Francis later this morning at the grotto. That is where tens of thousands of people have written their deepest yearnings on thin white strips. The prayer ribbons are tied in knots — representing struggles — to the wrought-iron fences, to thin wires and to the ribs of the grotto itself. The poor, the homeless, those in prisons and the addicted have all been invited to add their prayers to the art installation created by Meg Saligman. And last week, pilgrims from around the world who are here for the World Meeting of Families turned the grotto into their emotional touchstone. They waited in lines a block long to add their struggles to the collection. Now, reports say, 100,000 prayers are floating in the breeze. Those who have been behind the grotto — inspired by one of the pope’s favorite paintings, Mary Undoer of Knots — hope he will stop by for a blessing. But Pope Francis arrives at the cathedral, celebrates Mass and leaves without visiting. “Bummer,” says Will O’Brien, special projects coordinator at Project HOME, Sister Mary’s influential nonprofit that advocates for the homeless. But then, a small miracle, like the rainbows that will be spotted all over town later this day, occurs. You can read what happens if you follow along to Sunday afternoon. —Lillian Swanson 30TH AND MARKET STREETS • 10 A.M. Organizing bicyclists isn’t quite like herding cats, but there is something futile about trying to tell us what to do right now. We’re too distracted — pedaling in circles, adjusting our newspaper pope hats, taking selfies — to pay attention to what the guy with the

megaphone is saying. He’s trying to tell us that, since there are about 3,000 of us on the PopeRide, we’ll be deployed in 100-strong pods every few minutes or so. Something like that. Who cares? We’ve biked here from all directions — including a group from Conshy — so we already know what we have to look forward to: wide-open, traffic-free streets like we’ve never seen before. The start, closely monitored by police and bottlenecked by concrete barriers, is the only time we feel held back. The moment our pod is released, we fan out. All smiles. Down Chestnut, across Market, up Delaware Ave., all over. Cars are minimal. Lights are ignored. We own the town. The lazy, winding, 10-mile ride ends a little over an hour later, around Fifth and Spruce. There’s no finish line, just a gradual dissolution. “Everybody go to McGlinchey’s,” one woman yells as she rides by. Sounds like a plan. —Patrick Rapa CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF SS. PETER AND PAUL • 10:15 A.M. First came the cops on motorcycles with their throaty engines roaring. Then the big black SUVs slid by. Finally, the little black Fiat with the big man inside pulls up to the curb outside the mother church of the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia. From the crowd waiting for hours comes multiple shouts of “There he is!” as the spectators cheer, applaud and crane their necks to see the humble man who prefers the title “bishop of Rome.” This is the second time this week that Carolyn Benigno, a Washington, D.C., registered nurse, has seen Pope Francis. She waited seven hours to get a glimpse of him near the White House on Wednesday. Today, it is only a four-hour wait. “You’re a pope groupie,” I tease her. “I am,” she answers, laughing.

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The pope emerges slowly from his car, and all you can see is the back of his head, and the bright white cap atop. He climbs the middle steps toward the cathedral’s open doors, hesitates and turns around to wave broadly. Another huge cheer goes up. Then he disappears inside the stone basilica to celebrate an invitation-only Mass for the area’s priests, nuns, religious and other church faithful. Before his arrival, spectators in the crowd follow his movements on their cell phones — tracking him via newscasts arriving at JFK Airport in New York, airborne, arriving at the airport in Philly, comforting a boy in a wheelchair, and then heading by motorcade into Center City. All the while, the crowd is friendly and chatty, and children are moved up to the front of the barricades so they can see better. The Jumbotrons around City Hall, Love Park and the Parkway broadcast the Mass, but there are no screens in front of the basilica, so those who wait

there for the pope to leave are in the dark about what is happening inside. —Lillian Swanson BROAD AND WALNUT STREETS • 10:30 A.M. As television crews set up cameras to capture pilgrims in candid moments on the Avenue of the Arts, Oliva Jones sits there at Broad and Walnut. Despite living her life on the streets, she looks happy, the bags containing all of her worldly possessions lined up neatly to her right. Passersby barely take note as she smiles, resting against the marble wall of Banana Republic. “I wish it was like this every day,” she says when asked about what she thinks of the festivities. She hails from Hawaii and found her way to Philly by sheer luck just in the time for the pope’s visit. Thousands of miles of wandering brought her here by chance when many, including Pope Francis’ delegation, had planned their trips in great, and sometimes Oliva Jones

Sister Mary Scullion & friends.

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tedious, detail. The freedom of her existence seems to assuage the insecurity of want. Then again, when you’ve got nothing, you have to look on the bright side. In my experience, it’s the only way to confront reality. “You know, I was on the street two years ago,” I say. “How’d that work out for you?” she earnestly asks. “It was hard. Is it hard for you, too?” I respond. “Where I stay is far from the security, so they didn’t hassle me,” she replies, referring to the sweeps authorities made of Philly’s homeless population in preparation for the visit. “I just got a phone, too,” she says, smiling again, adding that she is hoping to take a picture with the pope. Whether she is serious or not is unclear. But, it is clear that even though she has no money, her spirits are lifted simply because everyone else is being so nice.—Josh Kruger THE PARKWAY AND 16TH STREET • 10:30 A.M. Enrique Bera, sitting with his back against a barricade, looks content and peaceful, though he’s been trapped for hours. His youngest daughter, Lupita, 7, is dead asleep with her head on his leg, hair and one hand peeking out from beneath a fleece blanket. His wife, Dominga, 40, is asleep with her head on his shoulder; their 11-year-old son, Jesus, is asleep on the ground behind her; their 9-year-old daughter, Kimberly, is up chatting with members of the group they traveled with. Bera, also 40, and his family traveled from Phoenix to try to catch a glimpse of the pope in person, despite not having tickets to any of the official events. The family slept in this spot on the Parkway, near 16th and JFK, in the hopes of having a front-row view as the pope arrives at the basilica this morning. It’s unclear whether the pope will actually pass this spot, though. The Secret Service hasn’t released much information about the routes Pope Francis will take between events, leaving pilgrims like Bera and his family to guess. “It’s a benediction to see the pope; Jesus is in him,” Bera says. He pronounces it “pop,” halfway between the English “pope” and Spanish “papa.” It got a little cold last night, but, he says, “This is a good way to show the kids faith.” They had plenty of blankets, and everybody but him got a pretty good night’s rest despite the noisy golf carts and food trucks nearby. The night didn’t seem long, says Bera. “When you’re waiting for something from Jesus, it’s short — this is one of the greatest experiences of my life.” The conversation wakes up Dominga, who sleepily wanders off to check on their older daughter. Bera nudges the sleeping little girl on his lap to see if she wants to talk to a reporter, but she doesn’t stir. He smiles and pulls the blanket back over her head. The pope is due to arrive in 15 minutes or so, so she’ll have to wake up soon. Two hours later, Bera, his family and thousands of pilgrims nearby are beginning to get anxious as the minutes tick by with no sign of Pope Francis. He arrived at the basilica via Vine Street, so all these people, many of whom have waited for hours, have only gotten to see his image on the huge video screens lining the Parkway. About 12:15 p.m., people begin to share rumors. One woman receives a text from her son, a sophomore at St. Joe’s University who lives across from the Jesuit seminary, where the pope is due next. “He says he just heard a lot of sirens, and then a lot of students rushed up to the fence trying to see him!” Another woman’s mother, watching live on TV at home, texts an all-caps “MOTORCADE WESTBOUND ON SCHUYLKILL” to great disappointment. “No, Twitter says he’s still in the chapel!” yells someone else. Everyone is either on high alert for an incoming motorcade or dispirited at probably having missed it. About 12:40, photos emerge online of Pope Francis

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MCGLINCHEY’S BAR • 11:30 A.M. I guess the plans changed. There are only four customers, a bartender and a cook. No bicyclists here. I sip cold cider from a glass mug. The pope’s visit to the cathedral is on the middle TV, flanked by two soccer games on mute. Archbishop Chaput makes his joke about how Philly’s so poped up we could rename our city “Francisville.” It knocks ’em dead in the church but nobody smiles here. “Hey, he’s wearing it,” the bartender yells to the cook, who’s disappeared into the back. “First time I’ve seen him with the pope hat on.” Mass is over. The bartender and the cook joke about the organist hamming it up at the end. It’s like that time on The Simpsons, when Bart replaced the hymn with “In-a-Gadda-da-Vida.” —Patrick Rapa BEN FRANKLIN BRIDGE • NOON The Ben Franklin Bridge is nearly 2 miles long, and

takes roughly 30 minutes to cross by foot. A National Guard Humvee rolls toward Philadelphia from the New Jersey side, heading west in an eastbound lane. The bridge has been closed to regular traffic for the weekend. The westbound side has been reserved for pedestrians. Matt Kelchner, a bearded Philadelphian in his 20s, fishes his phone out of his pocket to snap a picture of his friend, who stands on the concrete median with her arms outstretched. “We’ve been out here for 20 minutes, and it seems like there’s more Philly people here than actual pilgrims,” he says. There was perhaps no better microcosm of what happened to traffic on Philadelphia’s streets than the bridge itself: Residents, initially intimidated by the war machines rolling through Center City, soon turned the car-free streets into a playground. Many spent their time biking smack in the middle of abandoned streets, and the bridge became the city’s ultimate urban trail. As Kelchner tries to take a photo, a man with a graying beard zips past on an expensive-looking road bike, holding a cell phone to his ear with one hand. “I’ve never seen anything like this,” he says into the receiver. “The whole town is closed.” A little girl in a pink helmet, biking toward New Jersey with her mother, stomps down heavily on her pedals, struggling to make it up the bridge’s incline. At its peak,

the Ben Franklin reaches about 13 stories. The girl stops pedaling and grabs hold of the median. “Can we come down now?” she asks her mom. —Jerry Iannelli INDEPENDENCE HALL • 3:45 P.M. Barely a minute after Gov. Tom Wolf wraps up his speech outside Independence Hall, the video feed that had been focused on the podium switches to an image of the papal motorcade, and the big crowd falls silent. People sitting on the ground near the Jumbotrons shoot up from their seats, rising up around the screens in concentric waves. Screams float in from blocks away. He is close now. We can hear it. On the video feed, you can see his vehicle crossing Sixth Street and slicing the giant lawns on Market. The screams only intensify. The white Popemobile crosses in front of the Bourse. He enters Independence Hall through its south door and takes a brief tour of the Assembly Room inside. The camera is fixed on the north door, waiting, four minutes, five. A cymbal crashes, and the band strikes up Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man.” The door cracks open, and there he is. In his speech, delivered in Spanish, Pope Francis talks of the particular ability immigrants have to “enrich” the nation. He implores immigrants, especially

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arriving at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. He had left without passing by. A large groan goes through the crowd. Bera looks disappointed but is still upbeat. He shrugs. “Well, we’ll stay here until 4!” he says — that’s when the papal parade is supposed to begin. The Secret Service has also not released the parade route to the public, but Bera has faith. —Emily Guendelsberger

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those from Latin America, to keep a tight hold on the traditions that bind them. “Do not be ashamed of that which is a part of your lifeblood,” he says. The Spanish speakers in the crowd cheer heavily. Those who speak only English, however, crane their necks to read the translation at the bottom of the Jumbotron. “I could not see the subtitles, so I just sort of cheered along,” says Nycole Watson of West Philadelphia. “I’ll have to go home and watch it on YouTube. I’ll clap watching it on my laptop.” —Jerry Iannelli SUGARHOUSE CASINO • 4:15 P.M. Bartender O. is an upbeat beacon in a smoky room, and his smile draws us to his bright, shiny bar with video poker screens built-in. I sip Jack and coke. A sloppy drunk makes lame jokes and drapes an arm around his lady friend like an elephant’s trunk. O.’s from the Caribbean, originally. He worked in a casino there, too. Moved up here for love and marriage. This whole pope thing’s been bad for business, he says. Across the gaming floor, lights are twinkling and slot machines are blooping, but it’s only an illusion of hustle and bustle. There just aren’t that many people here, far fewer than usual for a Saturday afternoon, O. says. His quarrels with the pope extend to the theological. “I can confess to God directly,” he says. “I don’t need

to confess my sins to a man, you know?” He shrugs. For about three seconds, one of the giant screens behind him shows the Popemobile before the bartender with the remote settles on the Penn State football game, at a customer’s request. —Patrick Rapa LOGAN CIRCLE • 4:20 P.M. An image of the pope appears on a Jumbotron in the distance and the crowd that has been waiting for hours surges to the barricades. “Hurry! The pope!” a woman shouts. Ah, false alarm. The image on the screen is of Pope Francis being greeted by thousands of spectators as he arrives at Independence Hall for his much-touted immigration speech. And here we thought he was about to round Logan Circle. So we wait some more. Latino accents mix with New York City-style fuhgeddaboudit brusqueness. Around 5:30 p.m., a Philly cop tells us the pope won’t be driving by here until 7 p.m. Many of us have been waiting since 3 p.m. or so, and we’re growing eager, impatient — and overzealous. A group of boys and girls several feet away, all of them wearing gold bandannas on their heads, start a chant: “We love Jesus! How ’bout you? We love Jesus, yes we do!” Shortly after 7 p.m., people on one side of Logan Circle start shouting, and we know it’s Pope Francis coming toward us on his parade route from Eakins

Oval to City Hall and back. At 7:23 p.m., the pontiff, high in his Popemobile, comes by rather quickly. He turns and waves to us. The moment passes like the snap of fingers. The Haro family — mother Georgina, father Jesús, children Saul, Nancy and Jenny — had made a 10-hour trip from Detroit for a five-second papal wave. No matter. As Georgina tells me: “I feel like a dream came true in our lives.” —Andrew Zaleski 11TH AND PINE STREETS • 6 P.M. A pair of National Guardsmen stand watch at the corner, occasionally laughing with each other. Now and then, bicyclists ride by or young parents push expensive strollers in the middle of Pine Street. It is quiet far away from the crowds, save for the music playing from Boris Ginsburgs’ radio — twangy music with a strange melody, as if the smell of patchouli was turned into a sound. A small, extinguished charcoal grill sits nearby. Ginsburgs offers me some chicken. “I just ate. Thanks, though,” I say. “But, what’s going on here?” Ginsburgs explains that he and his wife own Melange Tea & Spice. In order to protect the business from any papal-visit craziness, they wanted to camp out there at the store and figured a neighborly cookout, utilizing the clear sidewalks and streets, was in order. Four of their neighbors sit in lawn chairs on the

19TH AND CALLOWHILL STREETS • 8 P.M. Jaleel Warren has had a long day. His sales crew is set up behind a table at 19th and Callowhill and just beginning their 13th hour of sales. When he found out Pope Francis was coming to Philadelphia, he thought it would be a good opportunity not only to make some money, but also to give visitors a souvenir to remember the weekend. So along with Mike White and Kenneth Freeman, the West Philly resident printed 500 T-shirts to sell to Francis festivalgoers. “We’ve been getting hassled all day long,” Warren

SUNDAY RYBREAD • 11 A.M. Fairmount Avenue is missing its Sunday brunch contingent. Those who still have a yen for eggs Benedict

and strong coffee navigate the metal fences and concrete barriers to get to the restaurants. The employees at Rybread, operating from underneath its storefront awning, didn’t sell breakfast items on Saturday, but they changed tactics this morning. “Business was so bad that we transitioned to offering egg sandwiches today because of demand,” owner Ryan Pollock says. It’s having some effect: There are couples and small groups at the handful of sidewalk tables they have set up. But a crowd like this won’t offset the impact the week has had on Pollock’s bottom line. “It’s going to be negative,” he says resignedly. Barricades on Fairmount went up on Tuesday, and he’s lost business ever since. Rybread’s more expensive offerings haven’t been the quickest-moving, either. “A lot of people have been buying coffee.” —Jenn Ladd THE PARKWAY NEAR 24TH STREET • 12:15 P.M. Most people in the “1” section have been staking out their spots in the front of the ticketed area since at least 7 a.m. Some showed up to wait in empty security queues until the Parkway opened at 6 a.m. It’s a choice position — unlike nearly everywhere else, it has a distant but unobstructed view of the huge golden crucifix and the altar on which Pope Francis will say Mass this afternoon. Five hours into their wait, though, hundreds of pilgrims break into loud boos and shouts of dismay

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says, slightly dejectedly. This is not the hopeful Jaleel Warren that I ran into nine hours earlier, when he and his crew were set up at 19th and Spring Garden. Apparently, inspectors from the Department of Licenses and Inspections visited Warren and his crew and told them they were not allowed to sell inside the 4.7-square-mile traffic box the city established for the papal visit. Weeks earlier, Freeman tells us, an employee in the city’s Commerce Department told him differently: They couldn’t sell shirts inside the security checkpoints set up for the weekend, but anywhere else was fair game. After being shooed away from 19th and Spring Garden and 15th and Spring Garden by L&I inspectors, Warren’s crew feel like the $300 street-vendor permit they purchased to legally sell T-shirts on the street was a waste of money. “It defeats the entire purpose of even purchasing the permit,” says Warren. “We’d be lucky if we sold a hundred T-shirts.” —Andrew Zaleski

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sidewalk in true Philly fashion. Ginsburgs, standing nearby and holding a red cup that smells of alcohol, says that the sweeps of Philly’s homeless population closer to the festival grounds drove new folks into the neighborhood. “A homeless migration?” I ask. “Yes,” he says. He wasn’t sure what the added variable would do, so he wanted to be there. Plus, he was worried about people — pilgrims or otherwise — camping in Kahn Park. Nobody did, though, which likely had something to do with the heavy military and police presence nearby. That heavy presence also contributed to a total lack of business, Ginsburgs laments. But he isn’t too upset about it. When there’s nothing to do, he muses, there’s always music and barbecue. —Josh Kruger

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as a huge white tent rises directly in their line of sight. Determined, angry chants of “TAKE DOWN THE TENT!” and “MOVE THAT TENT!” break out as the acts onstage try to perform. Even a couple young nuns in habits join in the fist-pumping protest until shushed by an older nun. Fran Y Soto, a 32-year-old graduate student, traveled here from Mexico City. “There is people here since 4 a.m., making the whole trip from many places,” she says. “They just put a tent exactly where you can see the pope. We really need someone telling the pope to take that down so we can see him, not only by the screens.” “I hope this ain’t a VIP thing,” says Carlos Olmo, 58, of Levittown. “We’re all supposed to be family, we’re all supposed to be equal. … If I was going to watch the projection, I would have stayed home, I could have watched it on my TV.” The suspicion that the tent is for VIPs is unsubstantiated but widespread. “This is the Mass,” says Y Soto. “This is not about privilege. He’s a really humble person; this is not something he might like.” (It actually was cover for the orchestra in case of rain.) The chanting continues intermittently for an hour as performers onstage attempt to carry on. At 1:25 p.m., a man standing nearby, citing a call from a nephew in the mayor’s office, spreads the word that the tent will be down before the Mass starts. And indeed, at 1:30 p.m., it begins to come down, the huge

golden cross slowly coming back into view. The crowd goes insane, former strangers hugging and high-fiving. After a bit, they unite in another chant: “THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!” —Emily Guendelsberger FERGIE’S PUB • 1:10 P.M. Fergus Carey emerges from the basement of his Sansom Street pub for a quick interview. The owner of Monk’s Café, Grace Tavern and Belgian Café, Carey says that the city’s restaurants just had to take one for the team this weekend. One need not look far for proof: There are a mere three patrons in Fergie’s at this hour. But the couple from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., finishing up lunch doesn’t mind the lack of company. “We’re happy to support a bar that’s empty,” says Jason Hughes, who surprised his husband with plane tickets to Philly for the papal visit. “We wanted to see what this event was all about, and for my husband it’s a pilgrimage.” Husband Ryan Spring is a Mass-going Catholic — “I go for the blessing. I’m not really there for all the unnecessary tradition,” he says — and he and Hughes saw Pope John Paul II in Toronto in 2002 and visited the Vatican during Pope Benedict’s eight-year papacy. But Pope Francis clearly is different. “Best pope ever!” Spring exclaims. “I love him. His message is an all-inclusive message, and for us that makes a lot of sense.” “You have to meet people halfway sometimes,” Hughes says. “And I think he’s met us, our relationship, halfway, which is better than no way. So sometimes you can reward that message with attendance.” The pair is preparing to brave the lines for Mass. “I mean, we have to,” Spring says. But it’s not a com-

pletely dry affair. “Actually we’re going to drink our way to the pope,” Hughes says. —Jenn Ladd THE NORWAY FLAG ON THE PARKWAY • 3:15 P.M. Before the Mass, Pope Francis stands up in his vehicle as it glides down the Parkway’s outer ring. The crowd is on its feet, cheering, cameras are raised, babies held aloft. The video feed on Jumbotrons follows along every inch of the way. The Popemobile passes the grotto, and then suddenly stops. He gets out and blesses the grotto and its prayers. Project HOME’s Will O’Brien, who is standing there, says the pope embraced Sister Mary Scullion in a “very moving and powerful” way. “He was very quiet, though he told Sister Mary to pray for him,” O’Brien says. “The pope was holding a card with a copy of the Our Lady Undoer of Knots as he stood there, and I pointed so he could see our large reproduction as part of the whole installation. He closed his eyes and seemed to pray very deeply for about half a minute.” The pope is handed a gift, a stole woven with pieces of hand-spun yarn that was knotted by the homeless, prisoners and others on the margins of society. Two journals of their prayers are given to him, too. Meanwhile, the Parkway crowd is going nuts, standing and applauding the pope’s blessing of their prayers. Was it chance or divine intervention that at that very moment a choir on the stage was singing “Alleluia”? —Lillian Swanson BROAD AND PINE STREETS • 3:50 P.M. A crowd bigger than any of the ones I’ve seen turn out for Christmas Mass is gathered before a Jum-

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Security lines for the papal Mass

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botron. Mostly they’re seated on the asphalt, crosslegged. I work my way to the back — no pews to contend with, just port-a-potties and people loitering. A man with a cardboard miter and a staff made from a tinfoil-wrapped PVC pipe poses for pictures. Mass begins. An ambulance sounds suddenly at our backs and drives slowly up the street, momentarily displacing the faithful. I head north. The final quarter of the Eagles-Jets game plays out on all eight flat-screens in Locust Rendezvous, which claims the biggest crowd I’ve seen in a bar all weekend. Still, I have my choice of barstools. I pick one next to an AT&T rep who’s spent the weekend in the Apple Store. He and the bartender get into a conversation about business, and she says it’s been the worst weekend for restaurants and bars all over the city. The media coverage spooked everyone, she says. The game ends, and Pope Francis appears in green vestments on the TVs. The bartender says, “We don’t want to listen to this, right? I can’t listen to this.” Mass is muted. A woman approaches the bar and says her party is leaving in 15 minutes, but could the bartender put the Mass back on for now? The bartender grimaces just a bit and balks. “Eh, Mass … in a bar?” The woman, dejected, returns to her seat. The bartender finds a remote, goes over to the appropriate screen and puts on closed captioning. —Jenn Ladd SHOW & TEL • 4:30 P.M. It’s not easy to find boobs when the pope’s in town. But that is my assignment. I start out at the World Famous Gold Club at 15th and Chancellor — worldfamous, partly, for its connection to the phrase “Josh Duggar cheated with me!” The hours on the door say they should be open, but the place is locked up tight. Next stop is Penn’s Port Pub on Delaware Avenue. Despite the flashing LEDs around the door and the words “open Sundays” scrolling across a screen, this place is also closed. So here I am, 100 feet away at Show & Tel. Why not “Tell”? No idea. The door is mercifully unlocked. But the “strip club” side of things is closed, and always is at this time of day, the guy at the cash register tells me. He’s here in case somebody comes in to buy lingerie or dildos or porn, but there’s nobody here. A smiling woman pops in to tell me she’s “one of the

girls in the back” available for a private show, then disappears. The guy at the cash register does not want to talk to me. “Has it been busy today?” I ask. “No,” he says. “What about yesterday?” “I wasn’t here.” “But it’s been slow?” “Yes, we expected it. It’s not like the Navy is in town.” “Then you’d be —” “We’d be busy.” I wander around in the back. Lots of walk-in closetsized rooms, most with the doors open. I see no one. I hear nothing. I leave. —Patrick Rapa 21ST STREET NEAR RACE STREET • 5 P.M. On the Parkway, the Mass is in full swing and communion is about to begin. But a few blocks away, at the security checkpoint for those with Mass tickets, there is still a huge bottleneck. Thousands of people are waiting to get through, stuck in lines that reach from curb to curb. My own feet-hurting, 90-minute wait earlier in the day turned out to be nothing compared to this. “I entered the line at 1:12 p.m. today,” says Cathy Morris of Northeast Philly, noting the four-hour wait. “It’s a disgrace,” she says. “They needed more TSA. They needed more checkpoints. I feel horrible they did this to us.” I can feel her disappointment as well as her anger, but there’s nothing I can say to make things better. So I reach into my purse and pull out a small, white booklet. “Here, this is the Mass program. You keep it,” I tell her, and walk away. Further away, down 21st Street, someone has brought their flat-screen TV out onto their front stoop. A crowd of about 30 people is gathered around it, following the Mass on the small screen. At one point, a few of the spectators kneel on the hard street to pray. —Lillian Swanson DELAWARE AVENUE NEAR SNYDER • 5:30 P.M. John is sitting on a wooden shipping palette, working on his sign. So far it says “Homeless & Starving. Growing Hopeless” in black marker on brown card-

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board. There’s room for two more lines. He takes a break to talk to me and roll himself a cig from the remains of discarded butts he keeps in a plastic bag. He’s been in the hospital four times in the last seven days, he says. Three times to deal with a staph infection; the last time because he was poisoned. “A ‘good Samaritan’ gave me some poison food.” “You think it was poisoned on purpose, or just bad?” “Poisoned on purpose.” “What kind of food did they give you?” “Sandwich from Arby’s. It wasn’t even like 10, 15 minutes later, I was just vomiting.” “That’s fuckin’ awful.” “Yeah, I thought I was gonna fuckin’ die.” Winter’s coming, but John’s staying in the area. The plan is to get a job, get his life on track and try to get back in his son’s life. The kid’s 5 and lives in Jersey with his mom. “I don’t want to end up a few states away, then get a job and have to plant myself there,” says John. Ideally he’d like to get back into construction or some sort of trade job, but right now he’d settle for sweeping up for minimum wage. He’ll sleep behind a Dunkin’ Donuts later tonight. “I was sleeping up toward South Street, but the cops are just coming in at all hours of the night. Every place that I try to lay my head I’ve been kicked out,” he says. He chalks up the crackdown somewhat to the usual and somewhat to the pope preparations. “Up the road a little bit, next to the Comcast building, there was what was called a tent city, it was back in the woods. If you weren’t looking for it, you didn’t know it was there. They came through one morning and bulldozed the whole thing.” What about shelters? “Any time I’ve ever been in one, I’ve been robbed or I’ve gotten bugs. They’re just — it’s not what you see in the news or in the movies and whatnot. Obviously the idea of it is good, but the reality of it is they’re not the best of places. If we were going through a cold fluke, yeah, it would be the best thing. But if I don’t have to be in one I’d rather be out here.” John gently scoops up a large, bright-green praying mantis and lets it walk over his palms, up his arm, down his leg. I ask him what he’d say to the pope if he could. “You know, I actually legitly thought about that — if I were to have any chance to talk to him. I couldn’t really pinpoint anything. There’s just too much. The pope may be a man of God but he’s only one person,” he shrugs. “Maybe make sure there’s better resources so the people who actually don’t want to be homeless can get up out of the hole.”—Patrick Rapa

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aire Slaughter, 36, sat wide-legged on a stoop on 20th Street near Rittenhouse Square, reading from a small black book, which contained interpretations from the Quran. A forest green National Guard Humvee rolled by, its driver scanning the streets for any potential threats. “It’s like the Twilight Zone here,� he said. “It’s intimidating. I was talking to my sister, and she said the guards really frightened her, too. I feel like I can’t move within my own city.� At Gov. Tom Wolf ’s order, nearly 4,000 National Guard troops descended upon Philadelphia last

weekend, according to BillyPenn.com. Guard members seemed to be stationed on every corner, and most did little more than direct traffic with orange vests draped over their fatigues. Others rolled around Center City in Humvees. For the average Philadelphian, the sight was shocking. In the months leading up to the papal visit, discussions surrounding the coming police presence took a backseat to questions about business closures or hotel occupancy. When the handful of folks who still had to work in Center City on Friday emerged from the few subway stations left open, they saw not only fences, but a bizarre, happy-faced military occupation in progress. For virtually any person entering the papal “traffic box� from the outside, his or her first sight was almost inevitably a military vehicle, painted either tan or green. At the traffic box’s western border, at the intersection of 38th and Market streets in University City, a pair of guardsmen stood next to a set of wooden horses on Saturday, preventing cars from entering the box. They occasionally took sips of coffee. Behind the barricade, University City was desolate and devoid of students, save a second, bigger truck, which rolled quietly between checkpoints on Market Street. The area felt, frankly, like it had fallen behind the Iron Curtain. Center City’s eastern access point, the Ben Franklin Bridge, which had been shut to vehicular traffic, was all the more surreal. Guard members were stationed every few feet, and squads of four or five soldiers patrolled back and forth along the road on foot. Throughout Center City on Friday, streets seemed to open and close to foot traffic almost arbitrarily, and

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crossing main arteries like Broad or Market streets typically required multi-block detours. Walking through town, it was easy to start feeling some sympathy for lab mice. After I posted photos of a few Humvees on Twitter, users responded in droves — one called the scene “eerie,� while another dubbed the town “Fortress Philadelphia.� “Looks like a scene from Homefront 2,� said another user, referring to a video game that depicts a dystopian Korean army invading Philadelphia. The Inquirer’s Michael Boren, likewise, noted on Twitter that it seemed as if visitors were being extra careful about reporting suspicious items to authorities: After someone left a backpack unattended on the ground, Boren said he saw people (rightfully) report the bag to security. “The owner luckily came back and claimed [the] backpack in time,� he said. “But people aren’t messing around here; they’re going to police for suspicious bags.� Much has been said about the city’s “good behavior,� overall, during the weekend of the papal visit — at the mayor’s pope-postmortem press conference, it was announced that there had been only three eventrelated arrests during the entire weekend. This is not surprising. As it turns out, it’s quite easy to obey the law when uniformed soldiers are shouting orders at you from atop a vehicle used for land invasions. As fun and well-meaning as most of the papal weekend was, we have now seen how quickly and efficiently the government can shut our city down. That ought to worry us, more than a little.

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ast weekend’s papal visit showed off the best and brightest from city public safety agencies — and the worst of the worst from L&I Living in a police state in support of the Catholic Church was interesting. If you take a look at what happened this past weekend — security checkpoints, state-sanctioned business, military stationed everywhere on city streets — “police state” is an apt description. Don’t get me wrong: I’m grateful all the cogs of the public safety machine were humming along at full speed. Given what Pope Francis himself represents — being the head of a Christian church and a state — and the large number of people in one area, you could justify the seemingly over-the-top security in this regard.

From what I saw, cops, TSA workers and Secret Service acted courteously and professionally. Then there’s the Department of Licenses & Inspections. At Broad and Pine, I came upon two workers wearing L&I shirts driving a golf cart, taking bags from two other men. The men pleaded with the workers to stop. The one worker snatched bags from the men and threw them in the back of the golf cart. I tried asking how those men could get their bags back. Even if they were unlicensed vendors, surely there’s a process for them to retrieve their property — or to receive a citation and be allowed to go on about their day. After all, they were selling T-shirts nearly a mile from the secured perimeter. There was no security or public-health risk. “I don’t know you,” one of the workers kept repeating with a dramatic flourish, as if that phrase whimsically suspended my First Amendment right to ask her a question on a public street. I identified myself as a member of the press, and I said I simply wanted to know if she was an L&I employee confiscating a fellow citizen’s private property because he was not a licensed vendor. Her colleague did nod in the affirmative when I asked if they had warned the men that they weren’t allowed to sell pope merchandise there. When I asked why or how they could get their property back, the woman wearing the L&I shirt refused to tell me. Her compatriot, seemingly embarrassed by her authoritarian swagger, indicated that there was a form. “How does that process happen?” I asked. No answer. “Did you tell them how to get their property back? Why didn’t you just issue a citation or something?”

I asked. No answer. Americans have a right to due process of law and a right to possess private property. Frankly, I care not a whit about who was an “official” vendor, and I don’t care whatever arcane legalese bureaucrats use to rationalize their seizure of private property, either. Jumping through statist hoops didn’t seem to matter, anyway. Even vendors who paid $300 for a license complained to City Paper that they were being harassed to move to dead intersections far from the festival grounds. One of the more enterprising vendors, tired of the L&I power trip, got on an Indego bike to stay nimble and ahead of the golf cart menace. Look, everyone was working their asses off for this event. I respect the city’s hard work, and I respect the work Mayor Nutter did to help facilitate this event. Also, I respect the fact that a great deal of the security was necessary. What was completely unnecessary, however, was deputizing a few people who clearly need some better training or education about the U.S. Constitution before they get behind the wheel of a golf cart. Here, especially in the so-called “Cradle of Liberty,” the Bill of Rights ought to mean something. You can’t just seize property, shut down public inquiry and hide behind an agency’s acronym. It was pointless, too. What did this actually accomplish? Hell, at least Mussolini made the trains run on time. These power-hungry L&I whack jobs in golf carts did nothing but steal from and harass U.S. citizens. They further damaged the image of a city agency that’s already loathed citywide — for good reason. (editorial@citypaper.net)

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/ B / Stranded astronaut MarkWatney (Matt Damon) may be running low on food and air, but he’s got something just as life-sustaining: movie-star charisma. As a member of a Mars mission wrongly left for dead by his crewmates, Mark wastes little time on despair before his self-preservation instincts kick in. But if that most basic of drives gives him the will to survive, it’s ingenuity and scientific know-how that saves the day. And it’s Damon’s performance as the most marooned man in the history of the human race that keeps us watching. In Andy Weir’s novel, whose suffocating narration has been mercifully whittled down by screenwriter Drew Goddard, Mark rarely lets down his guard, adopting a snarky, self-conscious approach to his daily routine — or at least the recording of it — that quickly becomes tiresome. Like the book, Ridley Scott’s movie eventually makes Mark’s survival (which involves figuring out how to turn the mission’s potato rations into life-

sustaining crops and digging up the wreckage of an old satellite) a collective, eventually global affair: He may be alone on Mars, but he’s got scientists, mathematicians, engineers, even a public-relations officer in his corner. By beginning before the accident that leaves Mark stranded, The Martian emphasizes that collective action put him there as well. Humanity: We specialize in getting ourselves out of messes we got ourself into. The Martian is short on both dramatic tension and interplanetary wonder. Although Mark spends hours each day waiting for his batteries to recharge, Scott can’t spare more than a few seconds to gaze up at the neverbefore-seen views of our solar system. But if it falls short of both Interstellar and Apollo 13 cinematically, The Martian’s fullhearted embrace of scientific cooperation across borders and above ideologies is a profoundly hopeful one — and, hopefully, a less fantastic notion than putting a man on Mars. —Sam Adams (wide release)

AIR BOURNE: Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney finds himself stranded and alone on Mars in The Martian.

Much more clever in concept than execution, Austrian import Goodnight Mommy is one of those thrillers at least partially done in by its own hype. Its supremely creepy trailer, circulated online among heavy-breathing horror fans hungry for the next Them, oversells a gorgeous but predictable setup whose innovations are strictly aesthetic. Played by first-time actors Elias and Lukas Schwarz, twin brothers Elias and Lukas enjoy a scrapbookworthy childhood on their family’s hyper-mod farmstead in northern Austria, all skinned knees, dirty sneakers and gross bugs in jars. Largely unsupervised, the boys and their carefree lifestyle get a serious jolt upon the return of their mother (Susanne Wuest), a television presenter who’s recently undergone extensive cosmetic surgery. Twisted up in unsettling bandages that completely shroud her face, it’s not even clear that this is the mom the kids know and love — a suspicion fueled by her increasingly violent and erratic behavior. Directors Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, shooting in a sumptuous and nostalgic 35 mm, have a hell of an eye for drama, capitalizing on the sparseness of their setting to double down on the rising mistrust between parent and child. But no amount of

behind-camera posturing can make up for the presumptuous storytelling, built around a cobwebby “twist” that’s all but revealed way early. If Fiala and Franz wanted to make their film more about the density of the family dynamic than cultivating organic fear, they shouldn’t have presumed their audience would be blown away by moves everyone’s seen before. —Drew Lazor (Ritz East) SICARIO // B-

Denis Villeneuve may be our leading practitioner of well-executed bullshit. Like Prisoners and Enemy, Sicario, which follows FBI agent Emily Blunt into the darker corners of the war on drugs, is immaculately shot and tightly edited, with ominous drone footage of the United States’ southern border lending the appropriate sense of impending menace. But it’s also, at heart, a fraud. Blunt approaches her character as a Bressonian blank, soaking up every detail as Josh Brolin’s nebulously employed government official shows her the extralegal tactics used to go after a Mexican cartel. (Interrogation room cameras are turned off, orifices violated, etc.) But even if Blunt’s character is meant to be a stand-in for the average American, remaining blissfully ignorant while the government violates the principles it purports to hold dear, her naiveté is beyond belief — and having her as the only

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woman in a virtually all-male cast gives scenes where she’s reminded to unholster her gun in the presence of a threat an unfortunate tinge of drugsplaining. (Her character, who works in Arizona and specializes in kidnappingrelated tactical raids, is so clueless about the depths of the cartel’s depravity that she gets new information from Google Image Search.) Benicio Del Toro’s mysteri-

ous free agent leads the movie into Prisoners’ mocksophisticated discourse about the imperatives of vengeance, but in the end, Sicario can’t even sustain its adolescent philosophizing. —Sam Adams (wide release)

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824 W. Lancaster Ave., Bryn Mawr, 610-5279898, brynmawrfilm.org. Othello (2015, Canada, 210 min.): A Royal Shakespeare Company theatercast from the Stratford Festival stage, with Hugh Quarshie as the titular Moorish general. Thu., Oct. 1, 7 p.m., $20. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966, U.S., 90 min.): Hapless newspaper reporter Don Knotts is assigned to spend the night in a creepy haunted house. Sat., Oct. 3, 11 a.m., $5. Talk Cinema. A cerebral film series curated by Harlan Jacobsen. Relevant panel discussions and Q&A follow the screenings. Sun., Oct. 4, 10 a.m., $20. The Beaux’ Stratagem (2015, U.K., 160 min.): A theatercast from London’s National Theatre — two big-city swindlers, intent on meeting and marrying a woman for money, get more than they bargained for upon visiting a rural inn. Sun., Oct. 4, 1 p.m., $20. Open Screen Monday: BMFI opens up its theater to local and independent filmmakers to screen their work, free of charge. Bring your 10-minutes-max film in DVD format. Mon., Oct. 5, 9:15 p.m., free. Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975, U.K., 91 min.): “‘Tis but a scratch.” Wed., Oct. 7, 7 p.m., $12. THE COLONIAL THEATRE

227 Bridge St., Phoenixville, 610-917-1228, thecolonialtheatre.com. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983, U.S., 95 min.): A stylish and sensitive adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s novel, about a sinister carnival that rolls into a small American town. A 35 mm screening. Fri., Oct. 2, 9:45 p.m., $9. Shorts for Kids: A collection of food-related shorts playing on loop during the Phoenixville Food Festival. Sat., Oct. 3, 12:30 p.m., free. The Gorgon (1964, U.K., 83 min.): Part of The Colonial’s threeweek salute to the late Christopher Lee, this horror classic stars Lee as an investigator looking into a series of mysterious deaths in small-town Germany. A 35 mm screening. Sun., Oct. 4, 2 p.m., $9. Arcade Fire: The Reflektor Tapes (2015, U.S., 110 min.): A chronicle of Montreal band Arcade Fire’s recording of Reflektor, its latest album. Wed., Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., $9. COUNTY THEATER

20 E. State St., Doylestown, 215-345-6789,

countytheater.org. The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957, U.S., 161 min.): Award-winning WWII classic about American/British POWs imprisoned in a Japanese war camp in Burma. Sun., Oct. 4, 12:30 p.m., $8. INTERNATIONAL HOUSE

3701 Chestnut St., 215-387-5125, ihousephilly.org. Tom at the Farm (2014, Canada, 102 min.): Psychological thriller about a young man (Xavier Dolan) who must keep his true identity and sexuality a secret while mourning the death of his lover (Caleb Landry Jones). Fri., Oct. 2, 7 p.m., $9. Hangmen Also Die! (1943, U.S., 134 min.): Fritz Lang’s spy drama looks at the violent aftermath of the plot to assassinate Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich, who controlled Prague during World War II. Wed., Oct. 7, 7 p.m., $9. RITZ AT THE BOURSE

400 Ranstead St., 215-440-1181, landmarktheatres.com. The Big Lebowski (1998, U.S., 117 min.): “You’re not wrong, Walter. You’re just an asshole.” Fri., Oct. 2, midnight, $10. TROCADERO THEATRE

1003 Arch St., 215-922-6888, thetroc.com. True Romance (1993, U.S., 120 min.): “He must have thought it was white boy day.” Thu., Oct. 1, 8 p.m, $3. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Stiteler Hall, Room B21, 208 S. 36th St., cinemastudies.sas.upenn.edu. Twelve Angry Men (1954, U.S., 60 min.): A rarely seen teleplay version of the 1957 film, this version of the classic nods to the movie’s origins on the then-revolutionary medium of TV. Mon., Oct. 5, 6 p.m., free. WOODMERE ART MUSEUM

9201 Germantown Ave., 215-247-0476, armcinema25.com. One Hour with You (1932, U.S., 78 min.): A happy husband and wife find themselves attracted to other people in this Pre-Code musical comedy. Tue., Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m., free.

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OCTAVIA E. BUTLER’S PARABLE OF THE SOWER: THE CONCERT VERSION

$30 // Thu.-Sat., Oct. 1-3, Annenberg Center, 3680 Walnut St., 215-8983900, annenbergcenter.org. THEATER Singer-songwriter Toshi Reagon and her mother/frequent collaborator, Bernice Johnson Reagon, adapt Butler’s acclaimed 1993 post-apocalyptic novel for the stage in gospel opera. This work in progress tells the story of a 15-year-old girl living in a walled community, protected from a deteriorating world. She embarks on a journey disguised as a man and founds Earthseed, a new religion. Butler, who broke barriers as one of the first well-known black and female science fiction novelists, was a Nebula Award finalist for Sower. Its sequel, Parable of the Talents (1998), won the prestigious award. —Mark Cofta

BREAKBEAT POETS

Free // Thu., Oct. 1, 5 p.m., Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, 3805 Locust Walk, 215-7467636, writing.upenn. edu/~wh/lit/hip-hop.

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Hip-hop is about words and beats, so it’s about damn time we have an anthology to showcase it. The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop is the first poetry anthology by and for the hip-hop generation, showcasing 78 poets born between ’61 and ’99. Poets Quraysh Ali Lansana and Jose Olivarez will be reading and discussing the anthology. —Cynthia Schemmer

CHVRCHES

$31-$36 // Thu., Oct. 1, 8 p.m., with Mansionair, Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St., 610-7845400, electricfactory.info. ELECTRONIC POP If 2013’s Bones of What You Believe achieved something like a Platonic ideal of electro-pop — it remains one of the

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CHVRCHES punch, which should be all the more effective under the lights. —K. Ross Hoffman

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moving into a beautiful new storefront space at 27th and Girard this spring, Brewerytown Beats record store has hosted a string of dope events for vinyl connoisseurs and music lovers of all stripes. On the first weekend of October, DJ Prestige links up with Froz 1 and DJ Personify (of Little Big Things) for two days of soulful, funky goodness. —John Morrison

BOB MOSES

Free // Fri., Oct. 2, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.; Sat., Oct. 3, 3-6 p.m.; Brewerytown Beats, 2710 W. Girard Ave., 206-7099212, brewerytownbeats.com.

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Brooklyn duo (yeah I know, it’s confusing) Bob Moses, who just issued their gorgeous debut LP, Days Gone By (Domino), do pretty much just one thing, but they do it exceptionally well: crafting languid, deeply autumnal tracks that layer hushed, sometimes gently harmonized vocal melodies over immaculately smooth deep house grooves, in the vein of fellowtravelers like Francis Harris and Benoit & Sergio. OK, I’m selling them short. Every so often they swap out the moody beatscapes for equally pensive acoustic guitar fingerlings, to much the same effect. —K. Ross Hoffman

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AN ALBUM THAT begins with the lyric — and Blade Runner reference — “I want more life, fucker” and ends with “The world vanished in a gentle breeze” just might describe some pretty high-stakes scenarios. And boy does it ever. Beauty Pill Describes Things As They Are (Butterscotch) is the first release in 11 years from D.C. band Beauty Pill. It’s also their first album since frontman Chad Clark almost died due to a heart virus he contracted in 2007. Accordingly, the album tackles the zeitgeist with once-in-a-lifetime fervor. The circumstances of mortality and chance surrounding Clark’s illness are forthrightly examined on “Near Miss Stories.” LGBT rights form the background of the political/domestic drama “Steven and Tiwonge.” And “Ain’t a Jury in the World Gon’ Convict You, Baby” inescapably brings to mind recent events in Ferguson and Baltimore. The sound of Describes Things is equally head-turning. Time-warped samples and loops intertwine with dynamic band performances. A metal dog bowl provides rhythm on “Afrikaner Barista.” Eerie shamisen, harp and strings envelope the haunting “Ann the Word.” The album is an exactingly Technicolor work of beat science. And it’s all the more impressive, considering that the band recorded much of it in public in 2011, as an art installation at the now-closed Artisphere in Arlington. In between those sessions and the album’s release this past April, there were delays and complications, including a second surgery for Clark. (He now wears a battery that keeps his heart working.) Describes Things has received critical plaudits, and the band’s Boot & Saddle show next Wednesday is the first date of their East Coast tour. It’s also their first appearance in the Philly area since a 2004 show opening for Travis Morrison at the Khyber. “It’s crazy for me to be at the microphone in the practice space, knowing how close I came to death,” Clark says. “What I really want to do is make a live music experience that’s as enveloping and involving as the record. I’m just excited to play and to present what we’re doing.” (@shakeymike)

$12-$14 // Wed., Oct. 7, 8 p.m., with Scott Churchman and Clique, Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St., 267-639-4528, bootandsaddlephilly.com.

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$20 // Sat., Oct. 3, 8 and 10 p.m., Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., 215-568-3131, chrisjazzcafe.com. JAZZ Saxophonists Harry Allen and Grant Stewart share a torchcarrying mission in regards to classic jazz. Both boast catalogs rife with Great American Songbook standards and tributes to the likes of Ellington, Gershwin and Porter. Here they’ll team up to tip their hats to a pair of groundbreaking tenor forebears, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. —Shaun Brady

RADKEY

$8-$10 // Sat., Oct. 3, 6 p.m., with The Pink Angels and Frontyards, Kung Fu Necktie, 1250 N. Front St., 215-2914919, kungfunecktie.com. ROCK Radkey is made

up of three homeschooled brothers from Missouri whose career is managed by their father, but (for better and worse) this is no Shaggs redux. Dee Radke somehow ended up with Glenn Danzig’s old demon-Elvis croon, which is backed by his brothers’ dumbly infectious poppunk riffs. Apparently they were allowed out at least as far as the garage. —Shaun Brady

EDMAR CASTAÑEDA TRIO

$25-$30 // Sat., Oct. 3, 8 p.m., Painted Bride Art Center, 230 Vine St., 215-925-9914, paintedbride.org.

JAZZ Even if the Colombian harp had a long history in jazz, Edmar Castañeda would likely still be an innovative voice on the instrument. As it stands, he’s a revolution of one, with a bold and distinctive voice well beyond the novelty of the unfamiliar harp, which he attacks with a symphonic range and virtuosity. —Shaun Brady

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Free // Sun., Oct. 4, 8 p.m., with Dan Blacksberg/Heru Shabaka-ra/ Connor Przybyszewski, The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St., museumf ire. com/events. AVANT JAZZ Though born in Vermont, cellist Tristan Honsinger has been counted among the pioneers of European improvisation for more than 40 years. His performances feature the deadpan expression and spontaneous physicality of a silent film comedian and sudden eruptions of Dada poetry. He’ll collaborate with the Canadian duo In the Sea, with bassist Nicolas Caloia and violinist Joshua Zubot. —Shaun Brady

CHRIS FORSYTH AND THE SOLAR MOTEL BAND

$10 // Sun., Oct. 4, 8 p.m., with Loren Connors and Bardo Pond, Ortlieb’s, 847 N. Third St., 267-324-3348, ortliebslounge.com. ROCK/PSYCH/ INSTRUMENTAL The

current generation of hip young guitar virtuosi may be largely oriented toward genteel, tastefully moody rumination, but you can count Philly’s Chris Forsyth out of that racket: His 2013 breakout Solar Motel, last year’s studio debut of his thusly-titled quartet and, presumably, the group’s due-in-2016 double-LP are all monoliths of farout, blissfully blistering instrumental rock. Forsyth and co. hold court at Ortlieb’s every Sunday of this month, with a stellar lineup of guitar heroes including Loren Connors (this week, with Bardo Pond), Alan Licht and — a particularly noteworthy influence — Television’s Richard Lloyd. —K. Ross Hoffman

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Locust St., 267-2521803, dolcesuono.com. CLASSICAL No viola jokes, please. At least not around Roberto Diaz, the former principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the current director of Curtis Institute of Music. After all, he is gracious enough to host this concert of lively music from Bruch, Brahms and Schulhoff, and will even sit in with the band. He will join five other musicians, including Dolce Suono director and flutist Mimi Stillman, herself a Curtis grad. —Peter Burwasser

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THE PHILADELPHIA MOTH STORYSLAM $8-$16 // Mon., Oct. 5, 7:30 p.m., World Café Live, 3025 Walnut St., 215-222-1400, philly. worldcafelive.com. STORYTELLING Got a story to tell? Throw your name in the Moth hat. Stage fright? That’s OK — Storyslam is just as entertaining from the audience. Since its inception in 1997, The Moth has been dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling in cities across the country. Watch fellow Philadelphians tell their tales and potentially

move onto the GrandSLAM championships. —Cynthia Schemmer

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$30-$36.50 // Oct. 6-Nov. 1, Walnut Street Theatre Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St., 215-574-3550, walnutstreettheatre.org.

THEATER Donald Margulies (Dinner with Friends, Collected Stories) subtitles this play, The Amazing Adventures of Louis de Rougemont (as Told By Himself). The 2007 celebration of imaginative storytelling, set in the 19th century and spanning the high seas, teems with exotic islanders, flying wombats, giant sea turtles and a monstrous maneating octopus — and is inspired by a true story! Greg Wood plays de Rougemont, sharing his life from Paris boyhood to world travels, with David Bradley Johnson and Bi Jean Ngo playing over 30 roles. —Mark Cofta

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Saturday, October 31 11:30 AM What will you be for Halloween? Join the Orchestra as they put on musical costumes to tell magical stories. Let your imagination be your guide through a journey of orchestral disguises. Some characters are funny. Some are scary. The flutes turn into the flowing Moldau River, the violin dresses up as princess Sheherazade, and the whole Orchestra becomes little goblins! Come in costume—the musicians wear marvelous costumes, too, and let the musical quick-change artists of The Philadelphia Orchestra entertain you!

Tickets start at $20—Order Today! 215.893.1999 www.philorch.org Groups of 10 or more call 215.875.7695. Concerts take place at Verizon Hall. All artists, dates, prices, and programs are subject to change. Photo: Jessica Griffin

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OCTOBER 2ND & 3RD - 8PM & OCTOBER 4TH - 2:30PM TICKETS: $15 - $35 TO PURCHASE VISIT: BROWNPAPERTICKETS.COM/EVENT/2181459

WJ Starbright Foundation (Peace For All Time) Visit our websites or Write to P.O. Box 1216, Havertown, PA 19083 Or Call 267-455-4339

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AN ENDORSEMENT OF THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PACT Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of President Barack Obama the world has moved closer to Peace For All Time. This great man extended the hand of friendship and goodwill to the leadership of Iran. Through fruitful negotiations a nuclear pact was produced. Iran agreed to use nuclear power only for peaceful purposes. They promised not to seek a weapon. Their compliance is verifiable. In exchange crippling economic sanctions were lifted. Hopefully good times will return to the long suffering Iranian people. The courage and endurance of the Iranian people is admirable. The suffered brutal repressionunder the Shah(1941-1979), hundreds of thousands of casualties in the war with Iraq (1980-1988), and great hardships and deprivation during the United Nations Economic Sanctions (2006-2015). They persevered because of their great faith in God. Together America, the greatest Christian nation and Iran, the greatest Muslim nation agreed on a framework for cooperation instead of conflict. It is a privilege to open the gates of Christendom to our new friends and Partners for Peace, our Islamic brothers and sisters. This alliance thwarted the warmongering Israelis who chortled at Iranian suffering and who clamored for unprovoked military action against the God-fearing, peace loving people of Iran. The Jews and their so called Born Again Allies demanded a third world war to fulfill their erroneous apocalyptic visions that are a false interpretation of the Bible. The Bible is a historical document not a roadmap to the future. The Jews are the heroes of the Old Testament because they authored the Book. It is a lie to call them God’s chosen people because they got the title by self-appointment. They are only one nation among many that must cease its roguish ways and conform to the standards of conduct and decency of all civilized countries. Despite misgivings at the beginning of this administration President Obama has convinced this very conservative Republican that he has earned his place among the very greatest of our Presidents. He joins George Washington (1789-1797), Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) deserving this very great distinction. President Obama guided the nation through the night of war and economic ruin to the dawn of a new day of unprecedented prosperity and ever lasting World Peace.

Well Done, Mr. President, Well Done! Sincerely, William Nickerson Phone 267-455-4339

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REVIEWS // OPENIN GS // LIST IN GS // RECIPES

BARNEGAT BOUNTY: Chloe chef Mary Ann Ferrie only uses scallops from New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay for the BYO’s scallop, arugula and potato pancake entrée. PHOTO BY C AROLYN WYMAN

Though the scallops entrée is cited in almost a third of Chloe’s Yelp reviews, the BYO’s long-running ribs entree actually sells even better. But it’s so hearty most people can’t finish it. And the scallops have the advantage of leaving plenty of room for Chloe’s banana bread pudding, another old favorite.

The stories behind Philadelphia’s signature dishes

STAPLES

BY CAROLYN WYMAN

DESPERATELY SEEKING SCALLOPS

GET IT: $28 @ CHLOE // 232 Arch St., 215-629-2337, chloebyob.com. Wed.-Sat., 5-9:30 p.m.

A bivalve-based entrée has stood the test of time at Old City BYOB Chloe. IT’S BEEN A TOUGH YEAR for the many fans of Chloe’s scallop, potato pancake and arugula salad entrée. Despite a deluge of customer praise and its signature status — being one of only four current dishes dating back to the 15-year-old bistro’s first few years — the dish has been on Chloe’s menu fewer than a dozen times in 2015. Chloe co-owner and chef Mary Ann Ferrie attributes that to New Jersey’s Barnegat Bay freezing over in February. “We only use Barnegat Bay sea scallops — the taste is unsurpassed — and after the harsh winter, it’s been hard to get them for a good price. And I don’t want to have to charge $40 for that dish.” The menu item was inspired by a dish Ferrie and her husband, Chloe coowner and chef Dan Grimes, ate long ago while vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard. It had “beautifully seared scallops and watercress lightly dressed with lemon,” Ferrie remembers. Though delicious, the dish needed crunch and spice, the couple decided. It wasn’t long before a scallop and watercress salad with a crunchy potato pancake and spicy sour cream sauce appeared on Chloe’s menu — most likely without a dry run. “After all our years of cooking, we know enough about what these elements taste like to put them together in our heads,” Ferrie says. The only change in the decade and a half since has been a switch from watercress to arugula in 2004, when, Ferrie says, “I became addicted to arugula.” The greens up the dish’s zip. Celery seed accents the potato pancake’s crunch. Ferrie says that seasoning is “one of those things I keep in my pocket for when a dish needs something.”

The only change in the decade and a half since has been a switch from watercress to arugula in 2004, when, Ferrie says, ‘I became addicted to arugula.’

MAKE IT The sauce: • 1 cup sour cream • 1 small can chipotle pepper in adobo sauce • Salt and pepper, to taste Blend the sour cream, half of one pepper and 1 tablespoon of adobo sauce in a food processor until smooth (about 2 minutes). Refrigerate covered for up to a day (but at least 2 hours). The salad: • 2 cups baby arugula (or watercress) • 1/4 of a small red onion, sliced paper-thin • 1 teaspoon olive oil • Salt and pepper, to taste Toss arugula in a small bowl with onion, olive oil, salt and pepper and set aside. The potato pancake: • 1 Idaho potato, peeled and grated • 1 large egg, beaten • 1/4 cup Wondra flour • 1/2 teaspoon celery seed • Salt and pepper, to taste • 1/2 cup vegetable oil Press excess water from the grated potato. Mix the potato, egg, flour, celery seed and salt and pepper together in a bowl and let stand for 5 minutes. Heat sauté pan to medium high. Add oil. When the oil is hot, drop half the potato mixture on one side of the pan and the remainder on the opposite side. Cook both cakes for about 3 minutes or until brown, then flip and brown the other sides. Drain on paper towels. Set aside and keep warm in the oven. The scallops: • 8 large sea scallops (about 3/4 pound), preferably dry-packed • 1/4 cup Wondra flour • Salt and pepper, to taste • 1/4 cup vegetable oil If not using dry-packed scallops, blot them dry. Dust scallops with the flour, shaking off any excess. Heat a sauté pan large enough to comfortably fit all the scallops to medium high, add vegetable oil and heat another 3 minutes. Carefully add scallops to the oil. Cook over medium heat for about 3 minutes or until golden. Flip the scallops and cook an additional 3 minutes. Do not overcook or scallops will be rubbery. Ferrie recommends cooking them medium-rare. Place a potato pancake on the center of each of two dinner plates, cover with arugula salad. Stir the chipotle sauce, then drizzle about 2 tablespoons on each salad. Arrange the scallops on opposite corners of the salads. Serves 2. (cwyman@citypaper.net)

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HEARTLAND I HEART CAMBODIA // 2207-2209 S. Seventh St., 215-468-2022. Mon.-Thu., 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Fri.-Sun., 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. POSTED ON A COFFEE SHOP window on South Seventh Street just north of Moyamensing is a letter to Councilman Mark Squilla requesting a meeting to discuss the possibility of forming Cambodia Town within the boundaries of Fifth to Eighth streets from Porter Street to Snyder Avenue. Official recognition for this small slice of Southeast Asia in South Philly would be great for this community, but as far as development goes, Seventh Street is already bustling with businesses whose awnings boast curly Khmer signage for everything from bridal and jewelry shops to video-rental stores, travel agencies, produce markets and pharmacies. This past winter a new restaurant, I Heart Cambodia, emerged along this stretch. But a few months later the space went dark. In midSeptember it reopened under new management, with a refreshed menu showcasing the fare of a nation sandwiched between Thailand and Vietnam. The cuisines of Cambodia and its neighboring nations share some elements: vibrant leaves of basil and mint, steaming bowls of noodle soup, bright lemongrass and fermented fish sauce. But once plates of food arrive and their aromas hit olfactory sensors, it’s clear something entirely different is happening here. Sadao salad — a tangle of julienned cucumber, rounds of jalapeùo and thinly sliced pork topped with roasted peanuts — possesses a bracingly bitter backbone that comes from the tender shoots of a type of mahogany tree. More commonly known as neem, this tree’s products have been used in ayurvedic medicine for everything from contraceptives to sedatives. Here, the sprigs, which resemble Lilliputian broccoli, lend an astringency that can challenge the most die-hard of bitter boosters, even when tempered with a sweet tamarind sauce. Decidedly less palate-pounding is cha kroeung. It’s a stir-fry of velvety beef with healthy hunks of sweet and hot peppers, bias-cut celery and fingers of long beans in a turmeric-tinted sauce. A layer of intrigue enters by way of little bouquets of curry leaves that appear in every other bite. Cambodia’s predilection for produceforward cooking pervades the menu (and the dining room; the staff one evening carries bags full of vegetables from the curb to the kitchen). A bowl of brothy samlor korko brims with gumball-sized green eggplants, chunks of Creamsicle-colored sweet pumpkin, papaya, cabbage and enough herbal greenery to make the bone-in pieces of pork almost an afterthought. Adventurousness is key here since the order-bynumber menu doesn’t delve into explanations, and when it comes to recommendations, the eager-to-please staff will most likely tell you that everything from 15 to 27 is a solid bet. But with a full liquor license and $2.50 Heinekens, the new incarnation of I Heart Cambodia is the perfect jumping-off point for digging into Philly’s burgeoning Cambodia Town. (caroline.citypaper@gmail.com)

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Looking at the world through an erotic lens has made me more open-minded.

SEXUAL POLITICS I DON’T WANT TO have sex with Donald Trump, but being good at my job means being open to entertaining the idea that some budding political science student, much like I once was, might just have the hots for the presidential candidate. Why is it part of my job? Because as an erotica writer, I’ve learned how to turn everything around me into erotica fodder. During the 2008 election cycle, I even ran a website called Sarah Palin Erotica as a way of capitalizing on sexy satire about the VP candidate. With e-publishing, this is all the more of an essential skill, which is why within days of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s pig sex scandal breaking, there was an e-book called David Cameron Slaps the Ham by E.S. Telphers for sale on Amazon. There’s also Kim Goes to Jail, about Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who went to jail rather than marry same-sex couples. But it’s not just politics that’s up for grabs — it’s every aspect of our lives. The more different types of people we’re able to imagine having sex and what might motivate them, even if they’re a different age, race or religion than ours, the more empathetic we become. I loved Joan Price’s anthology Ageless Erotica, featuring characters over 50, because it gave me insight into the mechanics of sex at an age many of us don’t even want to contemplate. Now that I’m about to turn 40, I’m finding myself wanting to write more about middle-aged characters, considering what it might be like for them to go to sex clubs or have first dates. I wrote a story in my anthology Dirty Dates about a woman who’s “forced” to do all kinds of degrading things, from wearing a blindfold with “slut” written on it in the passenger seat of a moving car to eating a sausage in a saucy way in public. I don’t personally want to do those things, but I love that this character is bold enough to get off on them. Writing — or reading — erotica about people who are different from us is like being a voyeur. We get a peek into another way of life, and we have to suspend snap judgments. It’s easy to mock Trump’s hair, but much more challenging to consider what it would be like to be in bed with him, whether or not you share his politics. I often instruct my erotica students to write from the perspective of a character who’s a different gender or sexual orientation than their own. Some take to the task while others languish, uncertain over how to proceed. I consider both scenarios successful; even if it takes you time to conjure an idea, you’re still stepping outside your comfort zone, which is a positive for anyone, writer or not. As we head into the 2016 election, it’s likely that if you’re single, you’ll wind up encountering at least one person whose political views differ from yours. Before dismissing them outright, talk to them. Ask questions. Be open to their queries. It’s possible that by letting go of your preconceived ideas, you might learn not just about another political party, but about a person you want to get to know further. Looking at the world through an erotic lens has made me more open-minded. I genuinely want to know about what the Trump version of Obama Girl thinks—and the Sanders and Fiorina and Clinton versions, too. (rachelcitypaper@gmail.com)

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