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12 Now They’re Cooking Four of Philly’s hottest young chefs road-tripped to Brewery Ommegang to prep for the upcoming Hop Chef competition.

And they weren’t afraid to let it all hang out.

PHILLYNOW 8 Workin’ It Camden Riversharks’ Brian Burgamy lives and breathes baseball.

10 The Breakdown The bill that proposed forcing abortion clinics to make costly renovations has been signed into state law. Now what?

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NAEFREE, via philadelphiaweekly.com

This is exactly the type of youth we need today. The inner-city communities youth will never get better if things such as young kids getting murdered won’t stop. I thank you so much for writing this letter, you as a young man, have made a big difference.

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Reading this brought tears to my eyes. Edgar is a courageous young man. Hopefully ALL of our government leaders— Democrats, Republicans, Tea Party, whatever—will wake up and realize it is time to address our issues in this country instead or trying to score political brownie points. As Edgar suggests, starting with a good education can go a long way to reducing many problems. Start supporting the good teachers and help the ones who need it for the benefit of future generations.

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The problem is solely not on the shoulders of the school system.

As a teacher within the system, I can say that the school reflects the values of the community and homes in which our children attend. To get children to be educated is a monumental task and school funding, while it is an issue, is not the biggest one. I think that we have to re-evaluate our values because to celebrate and create videos of youth who have perpetrated violence is not the answer.

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Not a Pretty Picture Regarding an excerpt from Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, a new book by journalists Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco that sees Camden as a harbinger of unsettling things to come: How great to see a publication giving voice to what is happening across America that the majority have no chance to see on our televisions or even our internet searches. Creative, heart-rending and frightening; thank you for featuring this work.

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What a couple of chumps—traveling around the world and being hypercritical of places they’re not from and only have a cursory knowledge about. There is beauty and strength in the toughest of neighborhoods, but it takes a lot more talent and time to write about that. It also doesn’t sell as well. Shame on PW for putting this garbage on the front page.

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nder a hazy late-spring sky, the Ben Franklin Bridge looming overhead, Brian Burgamy is standing on the infield grass of an empty Campbell’s Field— the waterfront home of the Camden Riversharks—still stewing a bit over the previous night’s disheartening ninth-inning loss to the divisionleading Long Island Ducks.

The slugging, switch-hitting first baseman went a respectable 1-for-2 with three walks and a run scored.

But as usual, he’s only thinking about missed opportunities, at-bats he maybe could have done more with.

“Really tough loss,” says Burgamy, a friendly if taciturn guy who’s in the middle of his fourth season with the Sharks. “I’m harder on myself than anyone else could be. But you gotta put it behind you. Today’s another day.”

It’s just past noon and the Sharks will get another crack at the Ducks in about seven hours. Like most game days, Burgamy—a team leader statistically and in the clubhouse—is one of the first to arrive at the stadium.

There’s lots to do before tonight’s first pitch: an intense workout, fine-tuning his swing in the cages, practicing his footwork at first base, and studying the ways Ducks pitchers have tried to get him out in the past.

Factor in his diet and exercise regimen on off days, and it’s clear baseball is far more to Burgamy than merely a game.

“People always say, ‘I would give my left arm to do what you do,’ and yeah, it’s better than a lot of jobs I’ve had, but it’s still a job. There’s so much work that goes into it that people never see. It’s a business, and there’s always somebody else who wants your job. There’s lots of guys knockin’ on the door, trying to get in this league.”

The Riversharks play in the independent eight-team Atlantic League of Professional Baseball; an alternative to “affiliated baseball”—Major League Baseball’s farm system. The league’s a quirky mix of young players with raw talent drafted low (or not at all) and looking to establish themselves; former major leaguers who’ve gone through injuries or sub-par seasons and are trying to work their way back to the bigs; guys who’ve washed out of the majors after lengthy careers

but still want to play professional ball; and guys who’ve kicked around the minors for years and are looking for a different path to the big show.

Burgamy’s in that last category. An Oklahoma native who just turned 31, Burgamy was drafted out of Wichita State—where he was the 2002 Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year—by the San Diego Padres in the ninth round of the 2002 draft.

Burgamy spent five years in the Padres system, playing for single- and double-A teams in Oregon, California, Indiana and Alabama. He moved on to two seasons in the Phillies’ system, playing at single-A Clearwater and double-A Reading, then part of a season in the Mets’ system before signing with the Riversharks in 2009.

“In affiliated ball, they basically give you a month and if you don’t start off hot they’ll find someone to replace you and you won’t get anywhere,” he says.

While grateful for his job with the Riversharks, and saying how much he loves the Philly area and the passion people have for baseball here, Burgamy admits the Atlantic League’s not quite where he envisioned himself winding up back in 2002. “Everything’s going in fast motion when you get drafted, you think the sky’s the limit, but before you know it, it hasn’t exactly panned out the way you wanted it to.”

Things work differently here. Unlike in the minors, there isn’t a gaggle of coaches overseeing your progress— players mostly have to make adjustments and learn on their own. If a player wants to study tape of opposing pitchers or batters, they have to obtain video themselves. The team doesn’t provide it.

And then there’s the money: Though Burgamy’s salary isn’t public info, the maximum monthly pay for Atlantic League players is $3,000, according to multiple sources. Most guys work regular jobs in the offseason—Burgamy’s done sales and telemarketing work to pay the bills.

Or, they try to get winter ball jobs in other countries. Last winter, Burgamy played for the Canberra Cavalry of the Australian Baseball League and tore it up, hitting .409 and winning the league’s Silver Slugger Award. “That helped a lot with my confidence, because I scuffled a little bit [during the

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He’s carried over that success into this season, hitting well over .300, leading the Sharks in home runs and RBI, and keeping the team in striking distance of the first-place Ducks going into the All-Star break (though he’s mainly hitting third now, having relinquished the cleanup spot to recently inked Pedro Feliz—the starting third baseman for the Phillies).

And Burgamy’s still holding on to his big-league dreams. “In baseball, being in your 30s is old, but I feel like I deserve a shot,” he says. “It would be great to have another opportunity to reach the level that everyone wants to get to. But whatever happens, happens. I’m pretty fortunate to be able to make a living playing ball. It’s a great job to have.” n Workin’ It is written by staff writer Michael Alan Goldberg, who peeks into the lives of working professionals each week.

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n June 19, a new abortion law went into effect in Pennsylvania. As Philadelphia Weekly reported back in the fall, the bill (Senate Bill 732) appeared to be yet another way for conservative legislators to try to shut down abortion clinics, or at least bleed them dry of as much money as possible.

On the surface, SB 732 (now called Act 122), which mandated that abortion clinics upgrade their facilities under the same guidelines that regulate surgical facilities (ASF), sounded perfectly reasonable. Who can argue with improving the safety of a medical procedure?

Thing is, safety isn’t the issue here.

According to the state Department of Health, abortion in Pennsylvania is already a safe procedure: Of the 36,778 abortions performed in Pennsylvania in 2010, there were only 12 reports of infection. That’s a .03 percent infection rate.

So what was the real goal of this legislation?

Well, thanks to leaked internal memos, advocates have long known that mandatory ASF upgrades were just a part of state-by-state pro-life strategy designed to financially threaten the existence of abortion clinics. And now, thanks to state Rep. Mike Turzai (R-Allegheny County), the world at large knows that Pennsylvania was no exception. Recently, Turzai publicly referred to Act 122—which his party insisted was about health and safety—as “pro-life legislation.”

The chicanery was also obvious when not a single medical association in the state supported the bill.

When similar laws passed in Kansas, it was estimated that two of the state’s three clinics would shut down—until a federal judge stopped the state from enforcing the law, citing concern for women’s health. When less severe legislation was passed in Texas—it only applied to clinics performing abortions beyond 16 weeks of gestation—no providers were able to comply for a couple years. By the time they earned accreditation, the cost of an abortion skyrocketed from $200 to $1,000.

Pennsylvania already has a scant number of abortion clinics relative to our population. If we don’t count the five clinics that can administer only medical abortions (via pill), Pennsyl-

vania currently has 14 freestanding clinics providing surgical abortions.

A few weeks ago, that number was 15, but in response to Act 122, a clinic associated with the University of Pittsburgh has closed.

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ties—have been granted three-month provisional Class A licenses. The remaining eight clinics—two in Allegheny, one in Lehigh, one in Chester and four in Philadelphia—have been granted six-month provisional Class B licenses.

Pennsylvania has a scant number of abortion clinics relative to our population. Not counting the five that offer only medical abortions (via pill), there are currently 14 freestanding clinics providing surgical abortions. around Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.

A woman living in Potter County, for example, along the northern rim of the state, already has to drive four hours to get to a clinic. Additionally, per the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, women have to wait a mandatory 24 hours between their first appointment and the procedure.

Of those 14, only one clinic—Hillcrest Women’s Center in Harrisburg—is fully licensed under Act 122. A spokeswoman from Hillcrest said while they don’t have exact figures yet, the Center spent a “considerable” amount of money on renovations and upgrades in order to earn accreditation.

“We had people working day and night on it just trying to get everything ready,” the spokeswoman said.

The 13 remaining clinics in question have so far been granted only provisional licenses because of late paperwork, according to Pennsylvania Department of Health spokesperson Christine Cronkright. According to a rep at the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities (AAAASF), that’s not unusual due to the amount of work involved in upgrades required for compliance.

Under the new guidelines, Pennsylvania abortion clinics are required to have either Class A or Class B licenses. The difference between the licenses is the type of anesthesia used: Class A facilities will be able to use local anesthesia, while class B can use full anesthesia.

According to the Health Department, five clinics—one each in Lehigh, Berks, Bucks, Chester and York coun-

Most of the clinics have applied for exemptions from the more burdensome requirements—like installing wider elevators or consulting with a minor’s primary-care physician prior to having an abortion—and are waiting to hear back if they are approved. The Department of Health’s standard for exemptions is “if compliance would create an unreasonable hardship and an exemption would not impair or endanger the health, safety or welfare of a patient or resident.”

So, the real impact of Act 122 is still up in the air. Call it legislative Stockholm Syndrome, but clinic administrators and pro-choice advocates are cautiously optimistic. Sure, the unnecessary mandates (trust that we will review next year’s infection rates to see if millions of dollars of investment resulted in fewer than 12 infections a year) have drained resources that could have otherwise gone to providing health services. But to their credit, the Pennsylvania Department of Health so far has been far more rational in implementing the law than state lawmakers were in writing and passing it.

Here at The Breakdown, we’ll keep you informed of the progress on each of the clinics and license approvals. Because right now, there is officially only one abortion clinic operating under the new law—and legislative attacks on reproductive rights in Pennsylvania show no sign of slowing down. n The Breakdown is written by senior writer Tara Murtha, who regularly reports on urban violence, policy, gender issues and any other social-justice issues we can think of.

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Chefs on tour: Ommegang brewmaster Phil Leinhart (center) introduces George Sabatino, Nick Elmi, Scott Shroeder and Joe Cicala to the brewery’s output.

volume out of a giant, soiled tip jar.

They will miss the morning after, when a panicked Ommegang Philly rep fears a missing Sabatino may be dead. (“He drank a lot, you guys. He’s really small, you guys. I’m really worried, you guys.”) They will miss 1,000 dick jokes, and 2,000 homoerotic suggestions.

On July 10, these men will be all business, showcasing their imaginative gourmet skills and vying for the title of Hop Chef. They will be serving 250 guests and some serious guest judges: Art Etchells of Foobooz, Top Chef contestant Jen Carroll, Emilio Mignucci of Di Bruno Bros. and Mat Falco of Philly Beer Scene magazine, who also spent time with the chefs at the Brewery Ommegang. But before that, it’s time to cut loose. Real loose.

This is the Ommegang Hop Chef pre-party and brewery tour. Strap in.

Four chefs take a five-hour drive to a brewery…

On this five-hour trip, they break one another’s balls mercilessly. The van, in essence, is a rolling kitchen—nothing is sacred, and everything is fair game to be picked on, joked about or generally maligned: wardrobe, appearance, tattoos, mothers, drug habits, food choices, veganism. Many of these goodnatured insults end up on Twitter, as the

chefs have been instructed by the Ommegang brass who are paying to drive them out and put them up to hashtag everything they tweet on the trip #HopChef in order to drum up publicity.

They do so dutifully, with gratuitous use of the word fuck and several jokes about figurative and literal sausage and tongues thrown in for good measure. You know: chefs being chefs.

So here’s the tale of the tape of the four who sausaged and tongued their way to Cooperstown and back. Place your wagers: There’s Scott Schroeder, 37, 5’10”, 240 lbs.

Schroeder is executive chef at both South Philly Tap Room and American Sardine Bar. He’s a bear of a man with an outsized personality and laugh to match. He’s good-natured, has an incredible sense of humor (on display daily @foodsyoucaneat), and stress seems to genuinely be a foreign concept to the guy.

He’s seldom without a smile, or without a funny quip. He is the Spicoli of the Stove, only seriously smart.

Schroeder has been cooking some 20plus years, working stints in Brassier Perrier, Pasión, Royal Tavern, Southwark and Deuce.

He’s got a giant tattoo of a freshly pulledout-of-the-ground beet teeming down his left arm from his bicep to very near his wrist,

and of a bottle of Tabasco sauce on his right forearm. He is partial, on this trip, to a woven porkpie hat and the Daniel Johnston “Hi, How Are You” shirt made famous by Kurt Cobain. “I’m a beer and food guy,” he says when weighing his chances in the competition.

“This is what I do.”

“They’ve got an amazing beer list at South Philly Tap Room and American Sardine Bar,” agrees Joe Cicala, 29, “short,” 175 lbs. “I eat at both of his places a lot, and he’s cooked many off-menu items for me that are just ... they’re just incredible. We’ve been making lots of jokes—because Scott’s known for his sandwiches—you know, ‘He’s trying to figure out how to put beer between two pieces of bread.’ But he could win this thing, for sure.”

Of course, Cicala himself is a threat to win.

A self-identified “wine guy,” Cicala apprenticed in Italy for two years at Ristorante Al Cenacolo in Salerno. He’s spent time manning the stoves in his native Maryland and in Washington, D.C., at Galileo and Café Milano, and Del Posto in New York. As executive chef of the much-lauded rustic Italian joint Le Virtu, which focuses on the flavors of central Italy’s Abruzzo region, Cicala, despite being the youngest, is the Yoda in the group. He is Philly’s new Salumi King, curing meats in the basement of his restaurant using the centuries

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ive chefs take a five-hour drive to a brewery. They get a tour, meet the brewmaster, eat dinner, talk food.

They taste beer. They take notes. After that, they go to sleep in the quaintest room in the quaintest bed-and-breakfast in the country’s quaintest li’l hamlet, Cooperstown, N.Y. Maybe in the morning they go to the Baseball Hall of Fame. They then drive five hours back to Philly.

Beer. Brew tour. Brewmaster. B&B. Baseball.

Back.

That’s the plan, anyway. But one of the five, the one they call The Pretty One, is nowhere to be found. As a result, the others are holed up in South Philly, at the agreed meeting place—a Dunkin’ Donuts on Oregon and Front—staring at one another, waiting for the trip to begin. Then waiting some more. This is followed by more waiting. What’s worse, The Pretty One lives in Bucks County. He still hasn’t left the house.

Fuuuccckkk.

They begin to form theories about why The Pretty One is running late: (1) He’s masturbating while looking into a mirror. (2) He’s putting on makeup. (3) He’s reading his own stellar press clippings. (4) He’s masturbating while reading his own stellar press clippings.

Every bit of the smack that leaves their lips also makes its way to the fingertips typing on their phones, as the four waiting chefs Tweet these theories to The Pretty One, better known to the public as Jason Cichonski, chef/ owner of the much-heralded Queen Village restaurant Ela. Cichonski and the four chefs waiting for him at Dunkin’—Scott Schroeder, George Sabatino, Nick Elmi and Joe Cicala—will be facing off on Tues., July 10, in the Ommegang Hop Chef Competition, at World Cafe Live. Jon Cichon of Lacroix will compete as well, but prior engagements kept him from making the road trip.

The competition—being held in Philadelphia for the first time after previous matches in Washington, D.C., and Albany, N.Y.—will see Philly’s most talented young chefs cooking with beers from Cooperstown’s Brewery Ommegang, a popular craft brewery owned

by Belgian beer titan Duvel. Whichever upand-coming gourmet takes top honors this week will go on to compete in August against the winners from D.C. and Albany at Ommegang’s gigantic, annual bash, Belgium Comes to Cooperstown.

The Philly chefs are touring the brewery to get a better understanding of the product.

They will taste each of the Ommegang beers while Ommegang brewmaster Phil Leinhart tells them about their inspiration, their recipes, the awards they’ve won, the foods they work well with. The chefs will feel in their hands the grains of paradise, star anise, special barleys and other spices, hops and grains used to make the beer.

Cichonski texts. He can’t make it, it turns out.

Leave without him.

He and Cichon will miss the beer. They will miss the brew tour. They will miss the B&B. They will miss the baseball.

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old techniques of his Italian forefathers. When he talks his craft—good bacteria, bad bacteria, temperature control, airflow, science—the others listen. No bullshit, he cures some meats with the full moon, because: water ... the tide ... the moon ... faster cure. Guy’s a full-on fucking meat ninja, a walking, talking Farmer’s Almanac of food secrets.

He makes a mean bowl of pasta, too. “I only eat at his restaurant, what, like three times a week?” says Schroeder about Le Virtu, whose pasta, he says, approaches Vetri-like serenity.

Cicala is mostly quiet, and takes compliments with an earnest, under-his-breath “Thanks so much,” casting his eyes downward. He deflects the kudos by offering his own, and has many good things to say about George Sabatino, 5’11”, 145lbs. “That kid is turning out some beautiful food,” Cicala says.

“I can’t imagine how good he’ll be in 10 years,” agrees Schroeder.

The waifish Sabatino is 30 but could pass for 13 when he smiles just so. He learned the trade bouncing around kitchens at Doc Watson’s, Monks, Fork and Vesuvio for a couple years before lying his way into Marcie Turney’s and Valerie Safran’s Lolita, where he started at the salad station. There, he began to really learn the cook trade, moved over to now-closed Bindi and then on to Barbuzzo, where he was named Chef de Cuisine. In those three Turney/Safran properties clustered around 13th Street, Sabatino traveled the culinary world. Stateside is his first executive chef job, and with it he’s already generating tons of buzz. He’s got a sleeve of tattoos on his right arm and tiny gauges in his ears.

He, like Schroeder, is deadly funny, but in a more subtle way.

Sabatino’s, Cicala’s and Schroeder’s restaurants are all down South Philly way, and they eat one another’s food often. None have yet eaten at Rittenhouse Tavern, the newly opened Center City spot of executive chef Nick Elmi, 31, 5’11”, 185 lbs. Elmi is, to put it mildly, allergic to bullshit. He doesn’t suffer fools gladly, has a 1,000-yard stare that could give a charging ox a heart attack, and is happy so long as things are in motion. He’s uncomfortable sitting still. He is no fan of dillying, and wants to strangle dallying in her sleep.

He also has little tolerance for someone stating the obvious. Like when the driver on the trip, Duvel Moortgat USA’s market manager Steven Cardello—whom the chefs take to calling “Gargamel” due to his startling likeness to the Smurfs’ nemesis—asks, “What the fuck is up with all this traffic?” early into the trip. Elmi’s reply: “Ummm… it could have something to do with all the RoAD WoRk signs we’re passing? Just a guess.” The quip speaks to Elmi’s dry sense of humor, which can sneak up on you. Nothing in the kitchen is more dangerous than a dull knife. Elmi is sharp.

Rittenhouse Tavern may be brand new, but it’s already earning kudos for its clean, modern American cuisine. “I drive that word— clean—into my cooks a lot. I want our food to be clean,” says Elmi, who graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in ’02 and has

done turns at many a high-end kitchen, both here and in New York: Lutéce, oceana, Le Bec Fin and Brasserie Perrier, where he worked with Schroeder.

Each of these men want to be crowned Hop Chef, which will earn them bragging rights for life, and a gaggle of super nice kitchen swag.

“I don’t enter competitions to lose,” says Elmi intensely. Always intensely.

“These chefs are all at the top of their craft right now,” says Duvel Moortgat USA’s PA/NJ marketing manager, Megan Maguire, explain-

lowing five criteria (per each chef’s choosing): 1. Simple pairing: The direct interaction between food and beer, from taking a bite of the food and a sip of the beer.

2. Incorporation: Utilizing beer as ingredient in cooking or prep process, including sauces, vinaigrettes, brines and braising liquid.

3. Mimicking: Requires matching the flavor profile of a dish with the flavor profile of a beer.

4. Storytelling: Beer, like food, has a great history. Not just how it was made, but why.

The chefs exhibit a refreshing lack of professional jealousy.

“That comes from respect,” Elmi says.

“We’re all very different, but we appreciate one another’s abilities.

Ten years ago, it wasn’t like this—your recipes were your recipes.” ing why ommegang recruited these particular guys for the competition. “They’re the chefs that are being talked about. Amazing creativity, total commitment, really competitive.”

What’s more, she says: “They are all recognizing craft beer in each of their restaurant.”

The rules of the competition are simple.

Cook two dishes, each with a different type of ommegang beer. The chefs choose one; the second is chosen for them. The dishes the chefs create will be judged on two of the fol-

This pairing lets the story be tasted.

5. Experimental: Make the beer the main star of a dish. This is usually a result of the other aforementioned techniques.

Easy pickings for Philly’s hottest up-andcomers.

Four chefs are running way late to a brewery. They’re starving. The rest-stop Quizno’s they had on the way up to Cooperstown didn’t help their grumbling stomachs.

once in Cooperstown, it’s a quick check in at the bed-and-breakfast, Tunnicliff Inn, whose interiors are set to “Grandmother”: maroon carpets, seashell couches, Easter colors. The Inn’s just up the street from the Baseball Hall of Fame, and everything about it, and this town, screams AMERICA at top volume. only town isn’t quite right—it’s more a very large baseball theme park disguised as a town. once bags are dropped off, dumps are taken, and significant others are called, it’s off to Brewery ommegang. on site, the chefs make the acquaintance of ommegang brewmaster Phil Leinhart, a very tall, thin man who speaks slowly and deliberately, and knows more varieties of hops than Justin Bieber has Twitter followers. Leinhart talks to the chefs about the six beers they’ll be choosing from to cook with—Duvel Golden Ale, Three Philosophers, Abbey Ale Dubbel, Hennepin Saison, Rare Vos Amber Ale, Witte Wheat Ale—and what each is spiced with, be that star anise, grains of paradise, orange peel or coriander. The chefs listen as best they can while drinking said beers on empty stomachs and snacking on a variety of cheeses and cured meats that have been laid out.

Here as in the van, the chefs talk to one another about purveyors, media types, Laban bells, incredible dishes they’ve had. Where can I find consistent scallops? Who has really great produce at a fair price? Why won’t Sysco leave me the fuck alone?

None of them—Schroeder, Cicala, Sabatino, Elmi—is threatened by the talents of any of their peers on the trip, and each exhibits a refreshing lack of professional jealousy. In fact, it’s completely absent.

“That comes from respect,” Elmi says later.

“We each have respect for one another and what each of us is doing. And we’re all very different—our styles, our techniques—but we appreciate one another’s abilities.

“Ten years ago it wasn’t like this,” he adds.

“Your recipes were your recipes. You didn’t share info. You found a good seafood guy, you kept him to yourself.”

Now, Elmi and the others agree, that old world philoso-ME has been turned on its head. Chefs in Philly realize that the more people eat well, the more they spread the word. As more and more restaurants serve outstanding food, and pour outstanding drink, the more the food community around them knows. The more they know, the more they grow.

The chefs are pulled away from the tasting room just as things begin to get rowdy. They are served a proper dinner in ommegang’s café. More beer is poured.

A brief summary of phrases uttered during dinner would look like this, along with handy key: • “Turbidity meter.”

• “I’ve eaten more meat than anyone in this room combined.”

• “Yeah, but we’re not talking about sex.”

• “Hashtag-nice-hat.”

• “Hashtag-this-hangover’s-going-tosuck.”

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With dinner over and minds lubed, the day’s business done, it’s time to do what chefs do as well, if not better, than cook.

It’s time to drink more.

Four chefs don’t know when they’ve had enough, and want to stare into the abyss to see if it, indeed, stares back unto them.

So, after being dropped off back at the Inn, they stagger up the street, find the one open bar, and each take a shot of tequila. Then they take another. They have more beer, too. They toast the locals with more tequila.

Cicala, once a junior hockey star, watches the L.A. Kings win the Stanley Cup on the bar television.

The baseball theme park that’s disguised as a town shuts down around 9 p.m. It’s well past. More tequila. Blurry vision. Where’s Scott? Tunicliff Inn ice machines. Ommegang gift bag beers. Sinks full of ice and water and bottles of Ommegang gift bag beers. Gooood niggght. Lobby tomorrow morning, 9 a.m.

Hop Chef going over Twitter.

As the competition draws near, strategies are being revealed: “Think I’ll just drink the beer and do a kissing booth instead #hopchef” — @jasoncichonski “And the fight for second place begins! #hopchef #whyarewedoingthis” — @nicholaselmi

Three chefs in the lobby of a bed-and-

Hop Chef…

That idea— the chef as winner—is still in its infancy. Ten years ago, as Elmi said, chefs didn’t share ideas, recipes or purveyors. But they also weren’t winners. They weren’t stars like they are today. They were servants, toiling away in kitchens, ruining their knees and backs crouching down into lowboy fridges, burning their arms, their hands, sweating away in the unforgiving heat in front of ovens, slowly roasting their skin in front of the open flame of the stove.

Ten years ago, a chef setting up a kissing booth would’ve been an absurd notion.

“Kiss the Cook” was a phrase that worked on

breakfast at 9 a.m. Silence. No signs of Sabatino. He’s been called, texted, tweeted. His door has been knocked on.

Finally, around 11, he appears. He trots slowly, gingerly toward the van.

“Hashtag-fuck-whoever-bought-thosetequilas,” he says after getting in the van.

Everyone laughs. It’s a fight not to puke the entire way home.

That was the morning of June 12. Since then Schroeder, Cicala, Sabatino and Elmi, along with The Pretty One, Jason Cichonski, have kept their public conversation about

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One chef will be crowned the winner of

aprons because it was funny, not realistic.

Now the hard work chefs do—the hard work they’ve always done—is being rewarded.

And the public is making up for lost time.

They’re showering chefs with attention. Culinary school is now a viable college alternative, not something just dropouts and young men on prison work programs pursue.

Chefs work hard. Very hard. It’s why, when they’re not tied to a stove, pricing out a menu, arguing with a purveyor about the day-old fish they’re selling as fresh, glad-handing with customers, or offering up quotes to the 1,000 new food blogs covering their every move, they play so hard. And every once in a blue moon—no, scratch that: every once in an Ommegang Witte—they are put on a platform, their skills and the hard work they do is rewarded.

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America’s biggest and freest Independence Day bash, courtesy of Wawa (after all, turkey Shortis fall under the “pursuit of happiness” rubric), includes a 7 p.m. concert near the Art Museum featuring the Roots, Daryl Hall, Queen Latifah, Common and Joe Jonas, followed by the usual ginormous fireworks extravaganza around 10:30. If you want to get in the spirit earlier in the day, head down to the Parkway for a block party with food, games and other entertainment that kicks off at noon. Michael alan GoldberG Noon. Free. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 23rd St. and the Ben Franklin Pkwy. welcomeamerica.com

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Search for An Albatross on YouTube and one of the first results you’ll get is “an albatross in Philadelphia.” It’s a performance by the Wilkes-Barre-bred band at what looks to be First Unitarian Church. Although the 11-minute clip cuts across the set, it still makes an exquisite Albatross primer. Eddie Gieda wears a ridiculously flashy pair of pants, constantly moves across the stage, and fries his vocal folds through one high-pitched scream after another. Occasionally, he takes a breather to speak like a preacher. Meanwhile, the players behind Gieda function in total clusterfuck mode, combining spazzedout power-violence guitars, relentlessly fast drums and whirling, psychedelized keyboard lines. Toward the end of the video, a patron says, “Why is that one of the best things I’ve ever seen?” We’re asking ourselves the same thing. reyan ali

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Call your girlfriend and let your body talk this Thursday: Robyn and her DJ partner Rokk will be spinning at Voyeur Nightclub after the Coldplay show at the Wells Fargo Center. The bleach-blond Swedish pop star has been pumping out hits since she was 13, all while evolving her sound from the R&Binfused “Show Me Love” in the ’90s to a more electro-pop-based “Dancing on My Own” of late. Rokk, a London-based producer, runs the London club “Body Talk,” the namesake for Robyn’s series of albums released in 2010.

Together, they create a fun dance vibe that will keep your body rockin’ all night. fiona locKyer 10pm-3am. $10-$12. With Dave P and Adam Sparkles. Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 Saint James St. 215.735.5772.voyeurnightclub.com

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drums—kicked off the first lo-fi movement in the early 1990s, with a string of fuzzy, feedback-damaged, felicitously hooked albums that included ultra-rare Propeller, scattershot Vampires on Titus and the great Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes. Twenty years later, amidst another burst of communal fuzz, this band, including longtime abstainer Tobin Sprout, was resurrected for the Matador 20th Birthday Party. In 2012, the band released two new albums, but even so, when playlists extend to 30 or 35 songs, there’s always room for “Hot Freaks” or “Kicker of Elves.” J.K. 9pm. $31-$33. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com

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This summer, in addition to breeding and showcasing some of the finest comedic talents in the city, the Philly Improv Theater is also inviting a slew of hilarious out-of-town acts to perform. First up is this side-splitting, yet thought-provoking one-man show performed by veteran improv comic Luis Sosa. The audience follows Sosa’s desperate journey to track down a lost lottery ticket. Along the way, he encounters various colorful characters (all played by Sosa), and ultimately is forced to re-evaluate his priorities. Sosa developed his chops at two of the most revered improv theaters/schools in the country: Upright Citizens Brigade and iO West in Los Angeles. Since debuting Jackpot! in 2004, he’s taken the show to cities around the country. Catch him in Philly tonight. nicole finKbiner

Sure, their break-out hit, an electronic/disco cover of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb,” might still be the Scissor Sisters’ claim to fame 10 years later, but the New York-based band never stopped writing melodramatic electronic dance music. Over the course of four albums, since the release of their 2004 self-titled debut, the band has perfected its blend of flamboyant glam rock. A little bit Bee Gees, a little bit MGMT, and a big pinch of Madonna and David Bowie define the band’s sound, while vocalist Jake Shears’ Rush-inspired quasi-falsetto remains the group’s calling card.

Their latest album was released in May and is a trove of kinky dance beats and Killers-esque anthemic pop. Katherine SilKaitiS 8:30pm. $27. With Rye Rye. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info

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Guided By Voices Bob Pollard and his “classic” lineup—that’s bassist Greg Demos, guitarists Mitch Mitchell and Tobin Sprout and Kevin Fennell on

7pm. $8-$10. The Shubin Theater, 407 Bainbridge St. 267.233.1556. phillyimprovtheater.com

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Lemuria Bridge Nine Records was founded on aggressive and intensely motivated hardcore. Traditionally, the label’s bands put on the kind of shows that leave you with light bruises (from stage divers) and aching toes (courtesy of stray, inconsiderate moshers). The fact that they signed Lemuria—a Buffalo, N.Y., trio who favor a sound rooted in the ’90s alt- and indie rock acts of Dinosaur Jr. and Yo La Tengo—is surreal. Lemuria exude a generally introverted aura, as if they have worthwhile ideas they want to write about and shows they very much want to play, but they’re just naturally shy and humble about their talents.

It’s an endearing approach, which is made all the more lovable by the group’s willingness to go all in on genre-bending challenges like playing grindcore-heavy fests or issuing Pebble, their latest full-length—on a hardcore label. r.a.

6:30pm. $10. With Ma Jolie + NONA. The Barbary, 951 Frankford Ave. r5productions.com

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BBQ at the Ballpark It’s the ultimate tailgate party. Leave the grill at home, the beer, the games, everything.

The crew at Rolling Barrel events is going to handle all of that and more for you at their 5th annual BBQ at the Ballpark event.

Come between 3-7 p.m. to tailgate before the Phillies take on the Braves. Sweet Lucy’s Smokehouse will provide an all-you-can-eat BBQ buffet with veggie burger options for those noncarnivorous folk. All the sides, except the baked beans, will be vegetarianfriendly, too: cucumber tomato salad, potato salad and macaroni and cheese. Desserts will be provided by Zsa’s Gourmet Ice Cream and the Bent Spoon. Oh, and beer. There will certainly be beer, complimentary from PBC, Yards, Victory, Manayunk and Weyerbacher.

Not enough for ya? How about special tastings, live music and games? And tickets to the tailgate also includes admission to the game! Brenda Hillegas 3pm. $90. Citizens Bank Park, Jetro Lot, 700 Pattison Ave. rollingbarrel.com

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Guitarist Ryan Mackstaller, trombonist Rick Parker and drummer Tim Kuhl are the Brooklyn-based Little Worlds, and they’re making a series of EPs focusing on Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos. (Book Two is out soon.)

Composed for piano as a teaching tool, Mikrokosmos is no mere exercise: It stands up as a 153-part masterpiece, comparable in some ways to Bach’s Goldberg Variations, with section titles like “Triplets in Lydian Mode” and “Two Major Pentachords.” Little Worlds expands the palette for three instruments plus electronics, recasting Bartók in a distinctly noir-ish experimental vein and drawing on jazz/classical precedents that go back decades.

West Philly’s the Horrible Department, a theatrical, accordion-fueled troupe, shares the bill. david r. adler 8pm. $5. With the Horrible Department.

Highwire Gallery, 2040 Frankford Ave. 215.426.2685. museumfire.com

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Given that late-era Grateful Dead was a rickety, frequently out-of-tune machine, Furthur (named after a legendary Ken Kesey tour bus) is arguably a better representation of the band and its legacy. Founding icons Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, plus newer recruits, have found a way to keep the Dead’s repertoire afloat, and why not. Say what you will about the late Jerry Garcia and his tie-dyed minions, but the Dead

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W are a piece of cultural history, the musical link between hippiedom and the earlier Beat Generation. Their epic, country-jazzy improv spawned an entire genre, and they’ve still got something a lot of jam bands lack: songwriting genius. d.r.a.

7:30pm. $34.50-$59.50. Mann Center, 5201 Parkside Ave. 215.546.7900. manncenter.org

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Color Run Philadelphia Ready, set, RAINBOW! The Color Run, a technicolor 5K race self-described as the “coolest course in town,” is stopping by Philly on its cross-country tour. Participants outfitted in white T-shirts transform into a spectrum of color throughout their run, with the help of color dust thrown by volunteers. Each kilometer brings a new hue for the runners, who sprint off from Eakins Oval, lap around Kelly Drive, and round out the day with an all-out color battle at the finish line. As if you needed any more incentive to carrying out your childhood fantasy of a no-holds-barred paint party, Color Run Philly supports Back on My Feet Philadelphia, a charity that aims to foster selfconfidence in the homeless population through organized running groups. Marissa Marzano 7am. $50-$55. Eakins Oval, 19th St. and Ben Franklin Pkwy. thecolorrun.com/philadelphia

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Laughs on Fairmount Funny ladies Carolyn Busa and Mary Radzinkski host their weekly open-mic comedy night at Urban Saloon tonight, and you should be there—(A) because it’s free and you are always broke, and (B) because you can witness Philly’s best up-and-comers perfecting their material right before your very eyes. Lately, the place has been packed with solicitous upstarts lining up around the block at the 7:15 sign-in time just to entertain you. It’s not uncommon to see 30-50 comics a night. It will be imperfect

and you will be drunk on drink specials and everything will be A-OK. aBigail Bruley 8pm. Free. Urban Saloon, 2120 Fairmount Ave. 215.232.5359. urbansaloon.com

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First Person Arts StorySlam This monthly event invites 10 people to share a personal story, relating to a set theme. A panel of audience members will then rate each of the storytellers on a 10-point scale and the one with the most points will score themselves an invitation to compete at the annual Grand Slam for the title of “Best Storyteller in Philadelphia.” Really, the beauty of the event is that you never know what you’re going to get—one story might make you chuckle while the next might make you cringe. Considering that the theme this month is “Wild Things,” one might perhaps guess we’re in for a night of laughs. Unless, of course, one of the featured storytellers happens to have a harrowing tale about being mauled by a wolfdog. n.F.

oody Guthrie brought traditional music into the 20th century, filtering the hard-knock decades from the Dust Bowl through World War II through the lens of folk and blues. A key figure in the rediscovery of American folk styles from field holler to bluegrass, he composed his own songs, including classics like “This Land Is Your Land” and “Roll On Columbia.” Politically acerbic and egalitarian to the bone, Guthrie would no doubt have had much to say about Occupy Wall Street, J.P. Morgan and hedge-fund America, but he died of Huntingdon’s disease in 1967.

The Philly roots rockers Mason Porter and friends celebrate Guthrie’s life and work in one of a nationwide series of concerts in honor of his 100th birthday. J.K.

Sun., July 8, 7pm. $10. With Mason Porter. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

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Willy Mason By the time he was 20, Willy Mason had earned breathless comparisons to Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, the backing of Conor Oberst’s Team Love label an opening slot for Death Cab for Cutie. Said Uncut of his 2004 debut Where the Humans Eat, “Rarely has an anachronism sounded so revolutionary.” The praise seemed a bit intemperate for what was, after all, a fairly understated bit of charm. Yet a second effort in 2007, If the Ocean Gets Rough polished Mason’s endearing scruffiness to a higher gloss, laying on backing vocals, a full band and stronger songs. Five years on, the world is still waiting for a follow-up, but Mason has been playing a lot of new material at recent shows. J.K. 8pm. $12. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

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o matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t figure out how “arctic char, crispy skin & dill” fit under the “raw” section of the menu at Vernick.

Were they quickly torching the skin, like at a sushi counter? Was it going to be scraped free of fish, deep fried and used as a serving vessel?

The answer was infinitely more inventive than that: Thick, meaty thumbnails of char and a lovely aromatic chili oil were divvied up on the plate by dried-thenfried skin. These crispy shards offset the meat itself not just in terms of flavor— briny against the fish’s spicy sweetness— but also texturally, their snap highlighting the unctuousness of the meat.

This is the sort of smart work being done by Gregory Vernick and his team at Vernick Food & Drink in Rittenhouse, one of the newest and most exciting entries into Philadelphia’s ever-expanding restaurant scene. He’s a veteran of JeanGeorges, having traveled the world for his restaurants, and also working in the kitchen at Talula’s Garden during the build-out phase here. He has beautifully internalized the lessons of both experiences, sending out food that’s inventive yet rooted, global in inspiration yet American at its core, and all in a space that’s deeply welcoming. To that end, his wife, Julie, runs the door, and, behind the scenes, keeps the business running. Up front, she sets a tone not unlike a perfect hostess at a particularly lovely dinner party.

And what a dinner party it is. We started with smoky, charred sourdough topped with sweet fried zucchini, little dabs of chèvre, and impeccable white anchovies.

All of this was generously draped with squash blossoms that had been wilted by a quick pass beneath the blowtorch, lending the construction both a hint of lift as well as a sort of visual exclamation point—fully justified for a deceptively simple blockbuster like this.

Silky red and gold beets, which shimmered like jewels in the ample natural light that floods into the upstairs dining room, were dressed in a red-wine vinaigrette. They came crowned with squares of nutty-sharp Moliterno cheese, and were scattered with sweet pistachios candied with fennel seeds. There’s a real sense of the artisanal here, and it’s used not to show off but, rather, to transform already exquisite components into something extraordinary.

Those pistachios are a good example. So, too, is the homemade mozzarella, its deeply lactic character a bravely unprepossessing

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Savory treat: Sourdough toast with squash blossoms and anchovies.

palette for the rhubarb jam, itself walking the tightrope between sweet and sour. I only wish bread were brought out to every table in the beginning. For such a warmsouled restaurant, its absence—unless you ask for it specifically—is perplexing. When I did request a plateful to scoop up the rest of the rhubarb, I was given the warm, charred, oiled sourdough; it was perfect.

More of that next time, please, and from the beginning.

Potato ravioli was the only minor letdown, though not as a result of any inherent flaw of concept. The flavors were there, but far too muted as a result of underseasoning. This is a shame, because the pasta itself was fantastically delicate, the potato filling dreamy, the accompanying pulls of lamb neck moist and tender. The entire time, however, I just kept on yearning for more seasoning to allow the dish to achieve its full potential.

Fortunately, the pork blade steak suffered no such problems. In fact, it was a rollicking winner, sliced into medallions, pink-centered, and as earthy-sweet as so

much pork still tends to be a blank canvas.

Alongside brightly bitter mustard greens and sweet-tart red-onion marmalade, all of it tied together with a classic Dijon mustard vinaigrette emulsion, this was one of the best pork dishes I’ve tasted all year.

Desserts follow suit, and even if the butterscotch and smoked chocolate parfait lacked much smoke character, it was nonetheless a light, elegant finish. The carrot cake, however, was a stunner: layered in flavor, almost impossibly moist, and

topped with a cream cheese and fromage blanc vanilla icing as addictive as any in the city right now.

Vernick Food & Drink is already a seriously successful addition to our town, and yet Vernick himself is still tweaking his recipes with regularity in an attempt to inch them ever closer to embodying his exacting vision. If he’s still striving this hard, I can only imagine the heights he’ll achieve here. It promises to be a fun, tasty ride for us all. n

Vernick Food & Drink 2031 Walnut St. 267.639.6644. vernickphilly.com Cuisine type: Internationally inspired American bistro.

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The Pickled Heron 2218 Frankford Ave. 215.634.5666. thepickledheron.com Cuisine: Contemporary American by way of France.

The Pickled Heron turns out a seared foie gras that ranks among my favorites in town, expertly cooked to buttery tenderness without a hint of over-searing and served over a golden raisin and black pepper jam that is both a sweet foil and a thoughtful complement to the faintly metallic character of the foie.

Caramelized brioche underneath it all adds crunch and heft. Seared scallops are tender clouds drifting on sunchoke puree and a scattering of toothsome fava beans, the entire dish brightened by a judicious squeeze of lemon. (L.B.) photos by f elicia perretti

611 S. Seventh St. 215.238.0900. nomadpizzaco.com Cuisine: Considerate, well-constructed pizza.

This is as neighborhoody and pleasant as it gets, a charming oasis from the craziness of South Street a block away, and a great entry to the city’s ever-expanding pizzastakes. All of the pizzas are framed by a dough that’s crafted in-house.

Straightforward margherita di buffala pizza benefited from the palate-filling milkiness of the cheese.

Against the simple, elegant San Marzano sauce and gentle dusting of sea salt and pepper, this pizza worked on a deeply primal level. (B.F.)

Cuisine: Wide-ranging Chinese.

M Kee is the kind of place you root for: The service couldn’t be nicer or more accommodating, and the restaurant itself, with its cheery orange accents and uniforms, is welcoming. The highlights are probably what you’d expect—they’re hanging right in the window.

Excellently named “roast pig” is just that: Tender rectangles of remarkably “porky” pork, each resting beneath a layer of cracker-crisp skin that’s a beautifully deep shade of mahogany.

Order too much of this and bring it home. It’ll make an amazing next-day snack. (B.F.)

Alla Spina 1410 Mt. Vernon St. 215.600.0017. allaspinaphilly.com Cuisine: Italian gastropub.

Defying expectations is the name of the game at Alla Spina, where Marc Vetri’s widely acclaimed hospitality gets a lowbrow make-under to match the cuisine. Pig tails are fried, rendering the considerable fat succulent and the strands of meat both crisp and redolent with piggy goodness—think crunchy bacon and fatty pork belly, twisted together around a bone not unlike a chicken wing. Awash in fennel agrodolce and topped with the filmiest hint of fennel fronds, they are best eaten with your fingers, a lip-smacking treat that manages to be at once sweet, sour, salty and rich. (L.B.)

Vedge 1221 Locust St. 215.320.7500 Cuisine: Ambitious, creative vegan.

Vedge, which resides in the stunning space once occupied by Deux Cheminées, does more to bridge the chasm between the artificially distant worlds of the omnivore and the vegan than any restaurant I’ve ever visited. Grilled gochujang tofu boasts three (three!) separate rounds of marinating and arrives in a shallow pool of smoked miso dashi, crowned by a translucent lace of yuba

“cracklin,” and accompanied by an edamame puree: soy beans four ways, each of them remarkable. (B.F.)

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1029 Race St. hopsinglaundromat.com If you look at the names of Hop Sing’s signature cocktails, the majority of them pay homage, in one way or another, to America. The “Montana Payback” is named after the Battle of Little Bighorn. “A Failed Entertainment” was the working title of Infinite Jest. Turns out that this fascination with America, this love affair, goes to the heart of who Lêe is—and, perhaps, to what motivates him. Before he began conceiving Hop Sing Laundromat in 2009, Lêe spent nearly three months bouncing around all 48 continental United States in an Audi TT, exploring the country and absorbing the food and drink cultures he came across along the way. With his sixth sense for flavor and balance, and with senior bartender Robert Fuentevilla on the team, the reality of Hop Sing hasn’t just met the pre-opening buzz—it has well-exceeded it. (B.F.)

Square Peg 929 Walnut St. 215.413.3600. squarepegrestaurant.com Cuisine: American classics with a twist.

In addition to the standards, there are enough tweaks throughout the menu to keep things interesting.

Grilled cheese is stuffed with mac and cheese: It’s a fatty, gluttonous, satisfyingly uncomplicated dish, with a successful interplay between the gooey and the crisp. The breakfast sandwich is a massive, fat torpedo, the eggs just drippy enough, the chihuahua cheese melting throughout, the homemade chorizo sizzling with a low-level spice that’s more implied than realized; porkiness is the focus here. When it comes to brunch, Square Peg is a more than worthy successor in the old Marathon space, and an appealing addition to the city’s everexpanding base of weekend-morning dining options. (B.F.)

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he Arden Theatre Company is giving theatergoers the unique opportunity to participate in the process of creating a play as part of its new Writers’ Room program, which culminates this week with a developmental production of Wendy MacLeod’s Women in Jep. Funded by a two-year grant of $150,000 from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage and a three-year grant of an equal amount from the Independence Foundation, the Writers’ Room began in April with a four-month residency, during which time MacLeod developed Jep, a dark comedy about divorce, dentistry and murder.

Best known for her hit The House of Yes (which became an award-winning film starring Parker Posey), MacLeod now gives us the story of a middleaged woman named Liz (Barrymore Award-winner Grace Gonglewski) who, much to the chagrin of her two best friends (played by the delightfully charming actors Karen Peakes and Geneviève Perrier), is dating a dentist (the excellent Joe Guzman)— who may be a serial killer. Also in the cast is the promising Laura Giknis as Liz’s college-aged daughter and the fabulous Aubie Merrylees, who portrays Amanda’s on-again, off-again boyfriend.

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by Arden associate artistic director Ed Sobel, who says it’s meant to spare the playwright the torturous process Sobel calls “development hell,” which subjects a new play to endless workshops and readings, often at more than one institution. “Writers felt like they were auditioning their play,” Sobel explains.

It’s also intended to increase audience engagement. Forty-five passes were sold to theatergoers interested in witnessing the creation process.

Stopping by a recent rehearsal, it was obvious that the viewers were fascinated by the collaborative process between the playwright, cast and director; they were able to witness the essential role the actors and director play in developing a new work.

The program also connects MacLeod to the city’s robust theater community.

Part of her residency includes regular meetings with a group of local theater artists who not only provide profes-

Friends till the end: Geneviève Perrier (left) and Karen Peakes play two women who fear for their friend’s life.

sional support (giving feedback on the script) but who also accompany her to the many local productions she’s attended over the last few months. The hope is that the orientation will give MacLeod an idea of the audience she’s writing for and that she will spread the word about the city’s theater scene.

MacLeod is effusive in her praise for this new development model. In addition to being able to bounce ideas off of Sobel, she says that when an actor had a question about the play or his character, it provided her invaluable feedback and a “great opportunity” to rewrite a section of the play. Not only does MacLeod believe the process has greatly improved the script, but it has also allowed her to work much faster. “If I was working on my own,” she says, “this four-month writing process would have taken two years.”

Speaking to pass holders following a recent rehearsal, Sobel said of MacLeod’s play: “I can’t remember an example of a play that has read and played so differently.” Unlike a conventional reading in which actors stand in place and read from the script, Sobel’s staging is closer to a finished production. The six-member ensemble will perform the play without script in hand, permitting the actors to embody the characters both vocally and

physically. In addition, the production is more fully realized by employing various design elements including set, costume, lighting and sound. Not only will MacLeod get a clearer idea of the play’s strengths and weaknesses than a conventional reading would reveal, but so too will the audience, which will include a number of artistic directors from around the country who are attending the production at the Arden’s invitation.

But even with all this support, there is no guarantee that Women in Jep will go on to have an official world premiere, either at the Arden (which has right of first refusal for the play) or another company. What it does guarantee is that MacLeod will have the opportunity to see the play “on its feet” immediately after the play is completed. Whatever the outcome, the Arden’s Writers’ Room provides an exciting alternative to the old model of play development in which scripts were being subjected to years of readings and workshops that too often robbed plays of the vitality, topicality and sense of urgency that makes live theater so electrifying. n July 5-15. $15. Arden Theatre Company, Arcadia Stage, 40 N. Second St. 215.922.1122. ardentheatre.org

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rtists often pursue new directions, take unexpected turns and investigate new material. It’s part of staying nimble, of responding to current concerns and contributing to contemporary debates surrounding the viability of different art forms today. With its newest big solo-artist exhibit, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA) puts forth the premise that superstar figurative painter Eric Fischl’s work has undergone such a change in the decades since he first became famous in the 1970s for painting tense scenes of suburban malaise. But there’s a difference between change in an artist’s detail-level techniques and change in the final product seen by viewers— and, in fact, the remarkable thing about Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting is that despite its claim to the contrary, Fischl’s paintings haven’t changed much at all in the last 20 years. Not in terms of engaging the artistic dialogue of today, and not even really in terms of his process.

To be fair, the claim for change is modest. “I had an idea to do a project with Eric and focus on process because his process of composing work has changed over the years,” says Harry Philbrick, director of PAFA and Dive Deep co-curator, during a press walkthrough. The changes the exhibition proposes are as follows: Fischl used to draw studies but then switched to photographing people mostly unawares (“Eric takes pictures all the time,” Philbrick says); he used to collage these photographs by hand, but now he uses the computer (“Eric uses Photoshop”); he’s begun sculpting models from photographs out of clay before painting them (“There’s a whole back and forth between the image and the sculpture”). But these changes are mostly negligible. They elicit no noticeable difference in the final painting.

The show serves as a case in point: Fischl has created a steady stream of masterfully crafted paintings depicting luxury beaches and their bronzed denizens. Neither print nor digital photography, drawing nor sculpture has made a difference in the presentation of the privileged (mostly white) bodies that are Fischl’s earnest subject. He slathers their flesh on the canvas as they might slather themselves with sunscreen: loosely,

Eric Fischl’s 2007 “Scenes From the Late Paradise: The Welcome.” lavishly and lingeringly. It’s seductive, but then again, that’s hardly surprising: These are mostly images borrowed from nude beaches. (He seems to have favored Saint Tropez).

The exhibition also includes photographs and paintings of interior scenes, etchings, monotypes and monoprints of beach scenes, and a compelling contact sheet of Fischl’s clay maquettes. Although the sheet is meant to serve only as documentation of Fischl’s process, the figures in each tiny frame take on the mystery of characters frozen in a filmstrip.

For a second, their lumpen gray clay conjures the violent protagonists of politically dissident Czech animation artist Jan Svankmajer, who also came to fame in the 1980s. For a moment, Fischl’s models revolt, undercutting rather than shoring up the figures in his colorful paintings. But, of course, this effect is purely accidental.

In every other way, Dive Deep is a politically tone-deaf show: The opulence, the allegory, the adherence to tradition—it’s all a bit rich in lean times. But Philbrick is swift to justify the exhibition, in part, because of Fischl’s connection to PAFA’s famous student, Thomas Eakins (1844-1916).

There were two times—a painting in 1996 and watercolors in 2001—in

which Fischl borrowed poses direct from controversial photographs of a nude Eakins posing with a nude woman in his arms. Given Eakins’ connection to PAFA and now Fischl’s, Fischl’s early homage to Eakin seems prescient—as if he’d intuited the eventual exhibition of his paintings on Eakin’s home turf. It’s academically interesting, in a sort o archival ‘ah-ha!’ moment. And that precisely the point. “We are the aca emy,” Philbrick reminded us. “To have Eric is a wonderful confluence If Dive Deep addresses current issues at all, then Philbrick seems t suggest that it does so in the contex of the last great bastion of the acad emy. But while Fischl might stand in well for the academy, he also entrenches an unfortunate stereotype that PAFA has successfully challenged through other, more politically and aesthetically contempora exhibitions over the last few years: that as the oldest art school in the country, it can be willfully obliviou to the present-day. n Through Sept. 30. $10-$15. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Fisher Brooks Gallery, Hamilton Building, 128 N. Broad St. 215.972.7600. pafa.org

Six Pack Six Authors Who Appeared in Film Adaptations of Their Work

By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Richard Wright, Native Son (1951): Non-judgmentally exploring the life of a violent urban youth, Wright’s 1940 novel was one of black America’s premier literary achievements in the middle of the 20th century. Of course, this was the middle of the 20th century, and despite being a bestseller, no major film studio would touch it. So, Wright took matters into his own hands. He eventually found funding in Argentina, and not only wrote the script but became its star. The problem? The protagonist is 20 years old. Wright was 43.

Mickey Spillane, The Girl Hunters (1963): Not only was Spillane the most hard-boiled—or at least most morally primitive—of the classic pulp writers, he acted, too. The author played “himself” in the circus mystery Ring of Fear, summoned, for some reason, to solve a murder. Nine years later, he returned to the screen, this time embodying his own creation, the brutish Mike Hammer. Alas, he was no Ralph Meeker, the Hammer of Kiss Me Deadly.

Yukio Mishima, Patriotism (1966): In his 1961 short story, Mishima told of a disillusioned lieutenant who commits seppuku—a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. The work had deep personal meaning for him. First, he filmed the story as a short, starring himself. Then, he proved story and film eerily prophetic: He himself committed seppuku, for generally the same reasons as his hero.

James Dickey, Deliverance (1972): Late in John Boorman’s city-boys-undone-by-the-country classic, the film is briefly stolen by the actor playing a smalltown sheriff. That actor was the novel’s author, and though he received accolades for his performance, he refused to act again.

Stan Lee, The Amazing Spider-Man (2012): Marvel Comics’ most recognizable name narrated the 1980s Hulk cartoon, and even filmed a cameo in the 1989 TV movie The Trial of the Incredible Hulk. Since 2000’s X-Men, though, you’d be hard-pressed to find a blockbuster based on his co-creations that doesn’t boast a Hitchcockian Lee walk-on. n Stan Lee in X-Men: The Last Stand

The Amazing Spider-Man is an unasked-for rehash of the story we already know and love.

By Sean Burns sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com

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Sticky situation: Andrew Garfield reprises the role of Spidey in this unasked-for remake.

After this laborious set-up, we never hear again about Parker’s parents.

As par for the course in the worst of Hollywood filmmaking right now, The Amazing Spider-Man doesn’t even bother to tell a complete story. All this stuff is just here to lay groundwork for the inevitable sequel, which is already slated to hit theaters in 2014. Could everyone please try telling one decent story for a change instead of worrying so much about setting up a franchise?

So, yeah, Peter Parker, spider-bite, high-school crush, he has fun with his new powers, etc. Near the one-hour mark, when Martin Sheen was still hanging around as Uncle Ben giving Peter wheezy lectures about responsibility, I could not believe he was still alive. Doesn’t everybody know by now that Uncle Ben has to die before Peter Parker can turn into Spider-Man? Why is he still here?

That’s the biggest problem with this picture, which is hilariously touting itself as “The Untold Story Begins” when really it’s just “The Retold Story.”

The Amazing Spider-Man hits all the same beats as Raimi’s previous picture (Rhys Ifans is yet another scientist who performs experiments on himself and becomes a monster … again) and there’s no fresh eye or invention to any of it.

Webb helmed the annoyingly quirky indie hit (500) Days of Summer, and he’s dreadfully out of his league handling a $215 million summer blockbuster. The Amazing Spider-Man is shot like a sitcom, with a rather annoying preponderance of over-the-shoul-

The Amazing Spider-Man Grade: D+ Director: Marc Webb Starring: Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone and Rhys Ifans der shots and never more than two or three people on-screen at any given time. This might be the most curiously under-populated New York City we have ever seen at the movies—$200 million can’t buy you any extras?

The most glaring example of the movie’s backlot-bound barrenness arrives when Parker first tests out his web-swinging skills, only to land crashing on the table of an outdoor cafe. Luckily for Peter’s secret identity, there’s nobody eating at the cafe.

There’s also nobody working there.

There’s also nobody on the entire city block to notice a teenage kid swinging around on webs. Is this movie supposed to take place after birdflu wiped out the population?

Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man had a goofball, cartoony exuberance that made up for the dodgy special effects with an almost kitschy 1960’s comic book grandeur. (The sequel was even better. And let’s just pretend that third film never happened.) Whereas The Amazing Spider-Man is mopey and morose, plodding out to almost twoand-a-half hours and almost frighteningly devoid of humor.

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t’s déjà vu all over again with The Amazing Spider-Man, a movie that exists entirely as leverage in protracted contract negotiations, and feels about as inspired as that must sound.

The short version is that Sony needed another Spider-Man movie to keep the big-screen rights from reverting back to Marvel and Disney: If they didn’t rush something into theatres in a hurry, we’d be seeing Spidey join The Avengers in the sequel.

Original series director Sam Raimi was shown the door—along with stars Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst— when push came to shove over creative decisions on Spider-Man 4. Now we’re faced with what’s commonly referred to as “a franchise reboot,” marketing department terminology that makes me queasy.

A hollow, joyless exercise directed with little verve by Marc Webb (yes, that’s his real name), this is sometimes a scene-for-scene remake of Raimi’s 2002 Spider-Man, except for occasionally when it isn’t. It’s a movie of echoes and over-familiar moments that has no real identity of its own. Why remake a much beloved, massively popular movie that’s barely 10 years old?

The Social Network’s put-upon sadsack Andrew Garfield attempts to fill Maguire’s spandex suit as the wisecracking web-slinger, here slightly re-configured as a morose high school student with permanent, expertly styled bed head who rides a skateboard everywhere because apparently he wants to be Marty McFly? Peter Parker pines away for Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy, the most beautiful girl in his class—who somehow carries long stretches of this movie on her indomitable charisma despite not being given a character to play.

So here we go again. Parker needs to get bit by a radioactive spider and all.

The main change-up in this screenplay (penned by James Vanderbilt, Alvin Sargent and Steve Kloves) is a bunch of hushed to-do about Parker’s missing parents. Played in the prologue by Campbell Scott and Embeth Davidtz, they’re some sort of scientists who scurry around a lot and react to a broken window by dropping young Peter off with his Uncle Ben (Martin Sheen) and Aunt May (Sally Field) before disappearing in a mysterious car accident.

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night (1996): The charms of Vonnegut’s novels are almost exclusively literary, and on the occasion of an actually halfway decent film adaptation—based on his early novel about an undercover Nazi—he put in a cameo, as though to sanctify the adaptation. Then again, he also put in time on the disastrous film of Breakfast of Champions.

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Magic Mike Grade: B+

Grade: BReview by Sean Burns As most comedies in the post-Apatow era are about slacker man-children who refuse to grow up, Seth MacFarlane’s Ted deserves credit for being hilariously on point, as Mark Wahlberg stars as a 35-year-old who can’t let go of his teddy bear.

The catch here is that the bear can talk, thanks to a magical wish made at Christmastime, which the movie reminds us is “that magical time of year when the children of Boston gather together and beat up the Jewish kids.” The walking, talking stuffed animal was a minor celebrity back in the ’80s, but now it’s three decades later and he just likes to sit around on the couch all day smoking weed.

Voiced by co-writer and director MacFarlane as a broad Bahston bray, Ted is a fountain of obscenity and obscure popculture references. Much like MacFarlane’s TV series Family Guy and American Dad, Ted relies mainly on allusions to junk 1980s artifacts and random nonsequiturs. Also much like MacFarlane’s TV series Family Guy and American Dad, Ted is very funny until all of the sudden it’s not anymore.

Everybody’s personal MacFarlane mileage varies according to their own internal clock.

I had a great time at Ted until it decided to try and have a plot.

The male stripper dramedy Magic Mike was loosely inspired by Channing Tatum’s pre-fame stint as a teenage dancer. At least it delivers the goods: that is, plenty of scenes of Tatum and company—including Alex Pettyfer as Tatum’s devil-may-care young charge and Matthew McConaughey as the joint’s vaguely sinister emcee— engaged in pelvic thrusting inches from the lens. Soderbergh frontloads the Channing buttage, although he pushes most of the drama to the third act. Till then, Magic Mike is a freewheeling blast. (M.P.)

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World The agreeably shapeless first hour follows commitment-phobe Wahlberg and his furry roommate doing bong-rips and screenings of the 1980’s Dino DeLaurentis Flash Gordon while the former endures a great deal of eye-rolling from his longtime girlfriend (Mila Kunis in a thankless role) and the latter picks up a bunch of hookers and gets wasted all the time.

At its heart, this is a very conventional tale, with the bear taking the place of the loudmouth loser best friend role as the protagonist attempts to grow up. What makes Ted work for as long as it does is Wahlberg’s ridiculous commitment to the material.

He’s a brilliant comedian who just so happens to be built like a brick: The dimmer and louder Wahlberg is onscreen, the better.

Ted loops around wonderfully for about an hour going nowhere in particular, the movie’s ecstatic highlight being a cocaine party in which Walhberg and his lifelong pal live out their Flash Gordon-inspired fantasies. Bummer when Giovanni Ribisi shows up and the movie devolves into terrible chase scenes, with a flustered Kunis limping along like a wet blanket, because of course girls aren’t allowed to be funny in this boy’s club.

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There’s something almost quaint about the film’s devotion to musical montages and predictable revelations in the midst of the apocalypse. But the scope narrows as the film goes along. Perhaps for budgetary reasons, the supporting players melt away, and we’re stuck with an increasingly claustrophobic road trip with Steve Carell and Keira Knightley. There’s an entire world out there that’s just about to be destroyed, and this movie zooms in on the two least interesting people in it. (S.B.)

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The film is a silly, perfectly awful family drama from first-time director Alex Kurtzman, who is perhaps best known for writing Transformers movies. Shot in burnished, smoky browns by cinematographer Salvatore Totino, People Like Us overextends the showy tracking shots in an attempt to hide the fact that nothing actually happens in this long-lost-sister movie.

We’ve already wasted 90 minutes before the revelations finally spill, and Elizabeth Banks over-emotes until the cows come home, as the movie keeps falling back on phony screenwriter’s devices and longwinded speeches that never for a moment feel remotely genuine. (S.B.)

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Let it be known that for Woody Allen, there are two kinds of lazy: the actually lazy and the more laid-back, coasting-on-his-uniquegifts kind of lazy. In his autumnal years, Woody has too often fallen on the former, making comedies (Hollywood Ending, Scoop, yes, Midnight in Paris) seemingly filmed from first drafts. The incredibly slight, but at least amusing and charming, To Rome With Love is the kind of lazy that should have clogged the back end of his CV all along. For better or worse, and Rome contains both, no one could have made it except Woody Allen.

Allen’s latest excursion to scenic places that will foot his bills finds him in ensemble mode, cutting between four stories that could never function on their own.

The weakest finds a young Italian couple separated by forced farce, with the husband (Alessandro Tiberi) having to feign marriage to high-end prostitute Penélope Cruz (game but wasted). The best finds Jesse Eisenberg contemplating cheating on his girlfriend (Greta Gerwig) with her pseudo actress friend (Ellen Page). What elevates this minor-even-for-Woody life lesson is Alec Baldwin as a smug, quippy imaginary friend who has the ability to advise (or mock) every character.

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Elsewhere, a severely reined-in Roberto Benigni plays an average Italian who, in a Buñuelian occurrence, inexplicably becomes a mega-celebrity, the media taking hungry interest in his daily minutae. (Stern news anchor: “What did you have for breakfast?”)

Also on U.S. screens after a long hiatus (since 2006’s Scoop) is Allen himself, as an unhappily retired opera director who discovers his daughter’s boyfriend’s father is a dynamite tenor—albeit only in the shower.

(He’s played by Fabio Armiliato, an actual tenor.) The obvious solution to this problem is the kind of silliness Allen would regularly upchuck in his “early, funny” period, and though To Rome With Love obviously pales in comparison to even his “middle, sort of funny” ’80s/’90s period, at least a package deal means it avoids feeling stretched-out like Midnight in Paris. The new Woody Allen is perfectly OK, a sentiment that should be felt more often. n

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, scripted by Grahame-Smith, is what you’d expect and little more. Honest Abe (Benjamin Walker) eviscerates vampires out of vengeance. History is exploited if not necessarily explored. Grahame-Smith ties supernatural beasties to the past without meaningfully connecting the two. It’s superficial, a novelty, boasting no commentary; its real-life hero is chosen essentially because he’s famous. It’s a one-joke movie.

But there are worse jokes. (M.P.)

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Sounds Like: Zachary Cole Smith’s the brains behind this band as well as Beach Fossils, both surfy and melancholic.

Free Association: Surf-rock bands are a dime a dozen, but this dime’s shiny and new.

For Fans Of: Surfer Blood x the Drums, Smith Westerns + Warpaint, summer drives.

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Maroon 5 Overexposed (A&M Octone)

Sounds Like: The Adam Levine show keeps on rollin’ into more poppy and Top 40 territories as the band tries to build on the “Moves Like Jagger” fervor.

Free Association: They feel increasingly more like an X-Factor by-product than a rock band.

For Fans Of: Dave Matthews x Prince, Matchbox 20 + OneRepublic, “Payphone.”

If the Glover fits: Chris Glover produced Top 40 music—without fancy producers or studios.

In a 2011 interview with Shakedown Blog, Glover described his current work in Penguin Prison as “Top 40 type music, but it’s more like with cooler production, cooler lyrics, and doing it sort of DIY grassroots, like in my bedroom by myself without fancy producers and fancy studios or anything.” As he discusses moving away from this approach, his hesitation reveals that he is, in fact, concerned that someone will fuck with his money. “I would always be thinking about all the money it costs to be in a big studio. I would always gravitate toward working in my house or a friend’s house—and then maybe if I knew exactly what I was going to do, I would go to a bigger, fancier studio, but only for a few days,” he says.

“To just waste hours and days spending all that money— it would be on my mind too much. I wouldn’t be able to concentrate.” n Penguin Prison performs Mon., July 9, 7pm. $20. With Neon Trees + JJAMZ. Theater of the Living Arts, 334 South St. 215.922.1011. tlaphilly.com

Critic’s Pick Tangerine Dream From their development of proto-sequencers to their embrace of the Mellotron and Moog synthesizer, Germany’s Tangerine Dream is closely associated not only with the development of krautrock, but electronic music as a whole—ambient, dance, trance and everything in between. In their 43-year career, they have never had a top hit, or even an earworm to speak of, but can count scores of film soundtracks (including Risky Business), legions of fans, and a U.K.-charting atmospheric instrumental album among their achievements. While they’ve moved from the edgy and atonal minimalism of their early albums to trippy new age-y synthesizer jams, Tangerine Dream has retained a devotion to beauty and mystery, writing surrealist soundscapes for secret abandoned gardens and infinitesimal universes. (Katherine Silkaitis) Fri., July 6, 8:30pm. $32.50. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info

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The Tarnished Gold (Sub Pop) Sounds Like: These West Coast gents specialize in retro-tinged, warmly produced folk that’s backyard-BBQ music.

Free Association: Doing what Fleet Foxes do with less pretense and indie grandeur.

For Fans Of: Gram Parsons/the Byrds x Lambchop, Dusty/ Neil, slide guitar, Patchouli.

Sonny & the Sunsets

Longtime Companion (Polyvinyl Records) Sounds Like: Sonny Smith’s 10-year relationship is the source for much of this country-themed set of songs about affairs, drinkin’ too much and sadness.

Free Association: It’s his songs, not his wonky voice, that give this LP so much charm.

For Fans Of: The Flying Burrito Brothers + Neko Case/Jolie Holland, sad bastards.

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Sounds Like: The N.Y.-based noise band’s third is a post-punk blast of 11 strong new tracks of ominous rock for lovers of gothic chaos.

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For Fans Of: Suicide x Joy Division + Disappears, My Bloody Valentine, ears splitting.

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Ever since the human race got into this whole music thing, we’ve dedicated approximately 80 trazillion songs to the subject of love. Meanwhile, money—the real thing that makes the world go ’round—is the focus of comparatively few compositions. Chris Glover has done his part to close this gap by placing “Don’t Fuck With My Money” on 2011’s Penguin Prison, the self-titled debut from the New York City-based one-man project that’s often accompanied by a live band. Don’t be fooled by the track’s confrontational name; this is pure ’80s club pop—a bouncy, well-manicured slice of funky synths delivered alongside Glover’s agile falsetto and the perpetually relevant chorus of “Don’t fuck with my money/Or you’ll be sorry.”

Glover has repeatedly cited Michael Jackson and Prince as two inspirations, and his affection reverberates through “Money.” “I’m not really sure how that song came about,” the soft-spoken performer says. “A lot of the time, I sleep with a tape recorder near my bed, and I wake up in the middle of the night with a melody in my head, and I sing it into a tape recorder and then go back to sleep. I wake up the next day and listen to it, and if I like it, I try to turn it into a song. That’s what happened with that song—it just came to me. I wasn’t really sure why, because it wasn’t about anything actually in my life.

It’s just a made-up story.”

While it’s disappointing that such a witty, fresh-feeling take on an old style doesn’t have an amazing origin story, Glover’s past in and around the entertainment biz has enough fascinating details to make up for that. When he was about 11, he snagged an agent and started singing professionally, which led to his involvement in a Beatles for kids album. He went to the well-reputed Professional Performing Arts School in New York, where he was part of a gospel choir with Alicia Keys. As he grew older, he played in a punk group. At Bard College, he was in a joke boy band that mixed Beastie Boys and *NSYNC. He once sent a demo to Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest, which generated serious interest from the rapper; Glover almost signed to Q-Tip’s burgeoning label until things fell through.

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First, CBB, “it” doesn’t work for a majority of the people a majority of the time.

It doesn’t matter how smooth a guy’s talk is, how tight his abs are, or how fat his wallet is, most of the people he meets won’t wanna sleep with him.

I’m not going to lie to you: Smooth talk, tight abs and a fat wallet improve a guy’s odds considerably.

But for reasons that run the gamut from religious to logistic to simple miscommunication, most people won’t want to fuck a given person, however smooth, tight, fat, etc.

The trick is to keep working it—to keep looking around—until you find someone who does want to fuck you. And there will be plenty of skinny, pale and spotty girls at your school, as well as girls who can see past those things. Your odds will be better if you can look past ’em, too. n

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My girlfriend and I are sexually active, and I

can get an erection in the beginning, a fully hard erection, but a few minutes into intercourse, I start to lose my erection. Intercourse feels amazing, it’s just that after a while I start to lose my erection. I can get my erection back if I allow my girlfriend to use her hand on it for a while. And then when I penetrate her again, I lose my erection again. I heard you on TV talk about how a guy shouldn’t grip himself too hard when he beats off. I grab it pretty hard, I have to admit, and when my girlfriend uses her hand, I ask her to grab it really hard, too.

So I am writing to ask if you think the reason I can’t keep an erection during intercourse has something to do with how hard I have her use her hand and how hard I use my hand?

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The next time you find yourself in an argument with a proponent of “intelligent design,” SCROTE, lay this one on ’em …

There’s this muscle called the cremaster that attaches a man’s balls to his abdominal muscles.

When a man is cold, the cremaster contracts, lifting his balls toward his body so those little darlings stay nice and warm; when he’s hot, the cremaster relaxes, dropping his balls away from his body, keeping the little darlings cool. Putting this in language the average “intelligent design” proponent can understand: Your cremaster is Goldilocks and your nuts are a delicious-looking bowl of sperm-cell porridge. Cremasterlocks doesn’t like sperm-cell porridge that’s too hot. Cremasterlocks doesn’t like sperm-cell porridge that’s too cold.

Cremasterlocks likes sperm-cell porridge that’s just right.

And here’s the cruel twist, SCROTE, the absolutely irrefutable proof that humans evolved over the eons through a completely random and directionless process of spontaneous mutation and natural selection: Our cremaster muscles don’t just contract when we’re cold, they also contract when we’re aroused. So the better it feels to have your balls sucked, the more turned on you get. The more turned on you get, the more your cremaster contracts. And the more your cremaster contracts, the more it hurts to have your balls sucked! You can call a system like that a lot of things—crazy painful, deeply ironic—but it can’t be called “intelligently designed.” (In defense of the cremaster muscle: It’s pulling your balls up toward your body so they don’t get hurt during intercourse—so they don’t get smacked around too much—but if humans are smart enough to create a car that knows when its door is open, then an intelligent designer would be smart enough to create balls that know when they’re being sucked, right?)

So the problem here, SCROTE, isn’t ball pain, it’s muscle strain. And there is something you can do about that.

“This guy should get himself a set of short ball stretchers,” said Stephen “Ox” Lane of oxballs.com, an online sex shop that specializes in toys for men.

“We have a good selection of ball stretchers, most made of silicone so they are nice and soft. He should get in the tub, soak in warm water, and let his sack relax and sag, then gently put one ring on. Then he can play with his balls for a while, stroking them and his dick, and if everything is feeling good, add another ring.”

At least for now, though, Lane doesn’t recommend that you leave the ball stretchers on when you come.

“His balls will pull up as he’s getting ready to shoot, and that may cause pain,” said Lane. “For the time being, he should use his ball stretchers as a warm-up. Over time, his balls will get used to the feeling and his sack will stretch.”

And not just your sack, SCROTE, but your cremaster, too. And a slightly looser, more elastic cremaster will mean less painful ball sucking.

Good luck!

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2224 S. Broad St.(Wolf St) 1 Br., 1 Bath & STUDIOS, w/w carpet, w&d in basement 3 avail. $600-$675 919 McKean St 1st flr, 1 Br., 1 Bath, yard, new kitchen, new bath just rehabbed $795.00 Abbotts Sq. 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, balcony, c/a, w&d, wood floors granite kitchen $1,395.00 1307 N. Marshall (Northern Liberties area) 1 Br., 1 Bath, wood flrs, laundry in bldg. $600.00 315 New St (Old City) Loft-style 1Bedroom, 1 Bath, c/.a, w&d, Garage PARKING included $1,250.00 1703 E. Moyamensing Ave. (Pennsport) Morris St. 1 Br., 1 Bth, wood flrs. #57 bus at the door $675.00 505 Christian St 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, central air, w&d, hrd. flrs., nice kitchen 8-4-12 $900.00 1712 Pine St 1 Bedroom, 1 Bath, Heat Included, a/c, laundry in the building avail. Sept. 8th $1,250.00

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715 N 6th St. (Northern Liberties) Very large 2 Brs.,1.5 Bths.c/a,hrd. Flrs.,w&d,d/w, no pets 524 S. 3rd St 2nd flr. 2 Bedrooms 1 Bath, w/w carpets, c/a, w&d avail. July 15th 1628 S. 9th St. 2 Bedrooms, 1 Bath, w/w carpet, central air EZ commute to center city

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1543 Montrose

238 Queen St 5

$369,900

Highly coveted 3BD/2BA home with oak flooring, stainless and granite kitchen plus open yard, complete with a custom tile bath, plenty of natural lighting, and a stunning master suite.

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129 League #2

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Beautiful 2BD/1.5BA second floor unit with 1-car parking, plenty of natural lighting, terrace area, wonderful kitchen, and private deck!

225 Carpenter St

$525,000

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505 S. 10th St I

$545,000

Sunshine fills this 3BD/2.5BA corner unit complete with 1-car parking, hardwood floors, wood burning fireplace, separate dining area, master bedroom suite, rooftop deck, finished basement and lush garden!

504 Delancey

$775,000

Recently renovated 4BD/2.5BA home with refinished pine floors, three wood burning fireplaces, and newer kitchen and baths!

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733 S Jessup

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$47,500

Rarely available parking space, 1 of approximately 50 spaces in a secure garage beneath 26 town houses, in a great location.

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130 Spruce St 32A

$489,900

Beautiful bi-level 2BD/2BA condo with parking and hardwood floors, featuring an updated granite and stainless kitchen, private yard, all in a lovely courtyard community with a pool!

338 S 3rd St

$525,000

Handsome 2BD/2BA home with a den, sun deck, wood flooring throughout, a lovely master suite, and a fireplace.

614 S. 26th

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506 sf

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SociETy hill RiTTEnhoUSE SqUARE BarcLaY

BaNk BuiLDiNg

raw space that can be designed and built into a custom home overlooking independence Mall

BaNk BuiLDiNg

Brand new 2 Br + den, 2.5 Ba home, lots of natural light, wood flrs, open chef’s kitchen, designer Ba,

3,068 sf

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

3,293 sf

$2,900,000

services available from adjoining oMNi hotel BaNk BuiLDiNg

2,025 sf

Bi-level penthouse with dramatic sunset views of the city, lavish entire flat master suite, great entertaining space 4,455 sf

Parc riTTeNhouse

WaNaMaker house

2 Br, 1 Ba, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows 1,200 sf

$399,000

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1 bedroom, open kitchen, wood floors, unobstructed river views from all rooms 712 sf

$259,900

$1,475,000

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1Br, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

700 sf

$269,900

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1Br , floor-to-ceiling windows, lots of light, updated kitchen and bath

700 sf

$249,900

$1,050,000

wAShingTon SqUARE 220 W. WashiNgToN square

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony atop rittenhouse square, wood floors, renovated throughout 1231 sf

The BarcLaY

$995,000

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 270 degree city views, wood floor, chef’s kitchen, marble baths 2000 sf

The DorchesTer

2,017 sf

3 bedrooms, 3 baths, all rooms overlook rittenhouse square, 2 sets of Juliet balconies, lavish master suite, brand new 1,709 sf

The WarWick

$2,295,000

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$1,100,000

Brand new 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom condo, wood floors, designer baths, custom chef’s kitchen, exposed brick and high ceilings throughout

The riTTeNhouse

$1,150,000

entire floor 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom home, Washington square views, custom finishes and features throughout 3,720sf sf

$725,000 iNDePeNDeNce PLace

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

iNDePeNDeNce PLace

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, balcony, open chef’s kitchen, designer baths, wood floors

hoPkiNsoN house

1 bedroom, 2 baths, balcony overlooking Washington square, brand new appliances in the kitchen, custom built-ins

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, corner unit with lots of light, updated kitchen, beautiful hardwood floors throughout

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, eat-in kitchen, large bay windows with city views

1,050 sf

$610,000

1,198 sf

$550,000

$2,100,000

throughout. iNDePeNDeNce PLace

4,500 sf

$1,800,000

1,387 sf

$699,900

843 sf

$299,900

1Br, 1Ba, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and Ba, custom closets, balcony 928 sf

$269,900

The DorchesTer

The WarWick

1 bedroom, all rooms have river views, wood floors, open kitchen, 712 sf

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom overlooking Rittenhouse Square, balcony, updated kichen and baths, 1231 sf

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, 270 degree city views, like-new condition, 2000 sf

$259,900

$1,050,000

condo Fees $559

$725,000

Taxes $216

condo Fees $974

Taxes: $400

Monthly cost after Tax to own $1,754

Taxes $482

Monthly Cost After Tax To Own: $4,917

Condo Fees: $1,169

Monthly cost after Tax to own $3,434

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Mortgage Financing available

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