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In honor of Turkey Day, help yourself to a heaping helping of things we just can't stand about Philly.
by The City Paper Staff
Yeah, we know we're supposed to be giving thanks and counting our blessings and rolling around in leftover cranberry sauce like a Wing Bowl contestant in his own slop.
Slant:
Abe Lincoln: Pill Pusher
Big Pharma and Big Brother are trying to breach your dreams.
by Emma Mellon
I 'm rushing to catch a train. Everywhere I look, Abe Lincoln and the beaver seem to be watching me.
Editor's Letter:
Ah, Home
by Duane Swierczynski
I've been away from Philadelphia for over a week. This morning, when I walked up the staircase from Second Street station and breathed in two lungs full of downtown air, I felt normal for the first time in 10 days.
Loose Canon:
Gaming the Casino Board
It's pranksters against power brokers. The pranksters are winning.
by Bruce Schimmel
I love Philly's anti-casino activists. For me, this battle casino royale pits pranksters against power brokers. And I think the pranksters are winning. Though you
Feedback:
Letters to the Editor
Checking the Label Thank you for [Loose Canon, "Jew Baiting, Philly Mag Style," Bruce Schimmel, Nov. 16, 2006] and attempting to set the record straight
Content HighThe Web revolution will be televised ... by Schooly D and the fine folks at 633tv.
by Andrew Parks
Like Butthead backhanding Beavis after a snide remark, it doesn't take long before Schooly D is slapping Erik Horvitz right upside the head.
Running NumbersA scholarly look at the digits that matter.
by Nick Norlen
10, 10, 10, 115, 115,000
Fine Print:
Orange and Green
IcepackWhole Foods gets charitable with reusable bags benefitting MANNA.
by Natalie Hope McDonald
Two bucks won't get you much in this city. Maybe a draught beer at Dirty Frank's or a food-cart egg and cheese. But since Nov.
Amorosi on the news, nightlife, gossip and bitchiness beats.
by A.D. Amorosi
There are four things I'm thankful for today. That I don't have children, so I don't have to waste my money or their time flicking their ears senselessly because they slept outside Best Buy waiting to buy PlayStation 3.
Free to Flow?Sunoco sees scant resistance for plan to run five pipelines by FDR Park.
by Alex C. Pasquariello
It's a sunny autumn afternoon in FDR Park, but most people here are in the shadows under I-95 hitting the latest addition to its renowned skate park, a massive new 12-foot concrete bowl that was completed Nov. 4.
Classes Without Borders
Next week, local students get a chance to address the U.N.
by J.F. Pirro
After his parents separated and his mother returned to her native Mexico to care for her ailing father, 14-year-old Dennis Fox faced a decision. He could stay there with her, or he could board a Greyhound bus and return to Philadelphia alone.
Name-Check the Children
The school reform debate makes one thing clear: It's all about the kids.
by Doron Taussig
On Friday, Nov. 10, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that Philadelphia schools CEO Paul Vallas didn't want to ask the state for help with the district's current financial problems.
Political Notebook:
Not Biden His Time
by Mary F. Patel
U .S. Sen. Joe Biden seemed to be in full campaign mode at a fundraising stop in town last week. Not content with being a part of the new majority, once again, he's setting his sights higher. He wants to compete against Hillary Clinton for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.
Philly Blunt:
Extra Silver Lining, Anyone?
The Bell Curve by Brian Hickey
Mornin'. I'd say it was a good one, but I just woke up to the soothing sounds of a PGW crew jackhammering across the street
City Paper's Quality-o-Life-o-Meter
When news breaks in Philadelphia, we make jokes.
Theater Review:
Subtraction by Subtraction
by David Anthony Fox
Maybe it began a few years earlier, but I noticed the decline of Western civilization when Julie Harris, playing Emily Dickinson in The Belle of Amherst, smilingly read her cake recipe.
Culture Shock:
This Week in A & E
Things That Matter To People Who Matter
The Flaming Lips, The Treo, Diddy, Feet hitting pavement
Theater Review:
Big Name Value
Two-Ring Circus
The Perfect Storm
Fast and Loose
by Mark Cofta
I'm wary of "stars" on stage: Plays suffer when audiences come to see the actor, not the whole package (e.g. Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain, Madonna in Speed-the-Plow).
Two-Ring Circus
by David Anthony Fox
There is no funnier essayist than Paul Rudnick, whose occasional pieces for The New Yorker and Premiere magazine make me laugh out loud.
The Perfect Storm
by Mark Cofta
I'm usually as excited as I am wary of a director testing a concept — usually a new setting that redefines characters and situations —
Fast and Loose
by Mark Cofta
Compared to other plays, Our Lady of 121st Street lacks structure, focus and resolution, but why focus on what Stephen Adly Guirgis's comedy is not?
Theater:
Robin Hood, Prince of Panto?
by Jessica Loughery
Actor Mark Lazar finds it tricky to describe The People's Light and Theatre's new show, Robin Hood, an American Panto. He knows he's donning a
Dance Review:
Bigger, Better
International Intrigue
by Janet Anderson
Spine-tingling isn't the word that usually springs to mind after a Leah Stein Dance Company performance. Typically this introspective creator leads us through the silent beauty of a vacant lot or quietly rolls eggs back and forth between bare feet. But there was no other word for her magnificent Carmina Burana, premiering locally last weekend.
by Janet Anderson
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal bring a welcome, European viewpoint to experimental dance, and once again featured challenging work from choreographers we'd not normally see.
Opera Review:
Raising a Voice
Golden Oldie
by Peter Burwasser
The comedies of Shakespeare and the comic operas of Rossini are potent examples of the timelessness of humor in the human condition. In the work
by David Shengold
Curtis Opera Theatre is to be commended for exposing its talented students — and local audiences — to the pre-Mozart works of the operatic canon: last season Handel's 1735 masterpiece Alcina and this year, for the third time in 17 years, Francesco Cavalli's L'Ormindo, first heard in Venice in 1644.
Arts Picks:
Altar Boyz
Klea Blackhurst
The Trial of Akhenaten
by David Anthony Fox
theater Boy bands may be dead, but here's a charming parody that's alive and well, both off-Broadway and now here at the Merriam. Altar Boyz
Klea Blackhurst
by David Anthony Fox
cabaret Force me to pick my favorite singer and I won't even hesitate: It's Ethel Merman. Who dares to disagree? Not Cole Porter, George Gershwin
The Trial of Akhenaten
by Rachel Frankford
God's been on trial a whole lot lately, poor fellow. Now it's even going on retroactively.
Last ChanceCatch It or Regret It
by Rachel Frankford
Carol Wisker: Fluxus Urbanus, Artists' House Group Show, Kimberly Camp: Spirits Awakened
Arts Agenda Picks:
On The DL
In The Event That...
Just Do It
GalleriesScott McCloud
by Andrew Parks
Thu., Nov. 30, 7 p.m. lecture and booksigning, free, Drexel University, Bossone Research Center Auditorium, 3141 Chestnut St., 215-895-2386, www.drexel.edu/westphal So you saw the movie
In The Event That...
You Love Flying but Fear Heights
by Tami Fertig
Ken Blackburn signing and paper airplane demonstration Tue., Nov. 28, 7 p.m., free, Children's Book World, 17 Haverford Station Rd., Haverford, 610-642-6274 Throwing paper airplanes
Just Do It
The Work of Katie Marlowe and Margaux Fried
by Sam Tremble
Runs through Jan. 12, Mew Gallery, 906 Christian St., 215-625-2424, www.mewgallery.org Last month, designers Carolynne McNeel and Lauren Parker opened Mew Gallery, an art space
Galleries are usually open Tuesdays through Saturdays; please call the gallery for exact days and hours. Receptions are denoted with Reception 201 GALLERY, 1400 N.
Performing Arts
Please call the phone number listed with the venue for specific dates, times and ticket information. dance THE NUTCRACKER What would the impending winter holidays
Museums/Exhibits
Museums and exhibits have varying schedules; please call for exact days, hours and prices. ABINGTON ART CENTER, 515 Meetinghouse Rd., Jenkintown, 215-887-4882. ELEMENTS, Features works
Readings/Book Signings
C.K. WILLIAMS The poet discusses his new collection, "Collected Poems," which covers all four decades of his career as a poet, Thu, Nov. 30, 8pm,
Space CaseDarren Aronofsky's mildly daffy sci-fi yarn is a movie worth believing in.
by Sam Adams
Thrown into the Thanksgiving breach almost four years to the day after Steven Soderbergh's Solaris, Darren Aronofsky's long-gestating dream project is similarly steeped in the scent of disaster.
Feeling Mutual
The multifaceted mumblings of Andrew Bujalski.
by Sam Adams
If you want to end up in Andrew Bujalski's next movie, don't bother updating your CV or taking acting classes. Bujalski, whose second feature Mutual
Lost in Space
by Sam Adams
Shot in grainy, square-format black and white, Andrew Bujalski's second feature might pass for some rediscovered 1950s treasure were it not so utterly of the moment.
Assassination Vacation
Well-acted nostalgia trumps political history in Bobby.
by Michael Atkinson
It's a miracle that anyone still grieves for the Kennedys' Camelot — after daddy Joe's candidacy-purchasing habits have been long-aired, after JFK's responsibility for the destruction of Vietnam and the terrorist assaults on Cuba have become simply matters of documented fact, after Oliver Stone's hagiographic liturgy has faded from the Blockbuster shelves.
Screen Picks
by Sam Adams
Norman McLaren: The Master's Edition
Showtimes
AMC Orleans 8 , 2247 Bleigh St., 215-722-4262. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (G) thu-sat: 10, 12:20, 2:40, 4:50, 7, 9:30; sun: 12:20,
Repertory Film
Send repertory film listings to tami.fertig@citypaper.net. AMBLER THEATER 108 E. Butler Ave., Ambler, 215-345-7855, www.amblertheater.org. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005,
The Doctor Is InA piano-playing Penn prof preaches MusiQology and pop psychology.
by Shaun Brady
When Guthrie Ramsey decided to put his piano playing on the back burner for a bit and go for his master's degree, it was solely with finances in mind.
Aid or Invade:
Israel
Rodney Anonymous vs. The World
by Rodney Anonymous
Artist: Idan Raichel, Album: The Idan Raichel Project, Country of Origin: Israel
One Track Mind:
Tom Waits
Soundadvice"Tell It to Me"
by A.D. Amorosi
It may have taken three CDs to do it (Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards) but Tom Waits has broken through the chains of a decade
Loudon Wainwright III, ¡Forward, Russia!, Whitey, Enter the Haggis, Louis Hayes & the Cannonball Legacy Band, Shiny Toy Guns
Music Picks:
The Last Emperor
Philomel Baroque Orchestra
Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan
Parts & Labor
by Deesha Dyer
hip-hop After rockin' overseas with Ghostface Killah, Cali Agents and Chief Kamachi, West Philadelphia MC Last Emperor is back to take the stage for the
Philomel Baroque Orchestra
by Peter Burwasser
classical If you think you have heard Vivaldi's best-known work, Four Seasons, one too many times, think again. The Philomel Baroque Orchestra plays this music,
Avey Tare and Kria Brekkan
by A.D. Amorosi
rock/experimental It's thrillingly risky when the frontfolk of the most innovative bands you admire step outside their usual settings. Especially when we're talking about the
Parts & Labor
by A.D. Amorosi
rock/pop Throbbing Gristle did it. Wolf Eyes did it. Blixa Bargeld did it with everything he touched. Parts & Labor do it. Manipulate the restlessly
Executioner's SongOur writer kills three turkeys — right in time for Thanksgiving.
by Rachel Frankford
The birds don't struggle. That's the most important thing to know. I expected a battle, two strong men straining to pin down 40 pounds of thrashing turkey and frantically beating wings so the knife-wielder can do his job. But they don't struggle.
Small Bites:
A Thanksgiving Story
Feeding Frenzy by Amy Strauss
At first glance, Portofino Restaurant's sumptuous decor and ritzy 12th and Walnut location endear it to a specific group of patrons — namely showgoers who feel no financial strain from taking in great meals.
Restaurants opening, closing and pending
by Drew Lazor
>> NOW SEATING The Bayou Bar & Grill 4245 Main St., Manayunk, 215-482-2560 Sanity comes at a premium on Manayunk's Main Street, where untucked oxfords
What's Cooking:
The Week In Eats
by Amy Strauss
Sparkling World Fri., Nov. 24, 6-8 p.m., $15-$20 Each weekend, Ristorante Panorama hosts "Friday Night Flights," a lighthearted happy hour surveying international wines. This Friday,
Top 5:
Chef's Thanksgiving Leftovers
Watering HoleInstant Replay
by Lou Perseghin
1 Turkey Chowder "People sometimes don't know what to do with the [turkey] carcass," says Bistro St. Tropez chef/owner Patrice Rames. "It makes a very
The Grey Lodge
by Will Dean
6235 Frankford Ave., 215-624-2969 If you go to The Grey Lodge on a Friday night, you'll see something rare: a man hammering a tap into
Agenda Lead:
Kings & Queens
Joey Josephs' Amazing Technicolor Drag Show
by Natalie Hope McDonald
Joey Josephs can transform into Liza Minnelli in 10 minutes. He learned it the hard way a few years ago at Gay Pride.
Agenda Picks:
Been There Done That
Accidental Tourist
On The DL
Kids, etc.
What We Heart
Beginners' Capoeira
by Amanda McKenna
Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 6-7:30 p.m., $12-$15, The American Society of Capoeira and Arts From Brazil, 756 S. 11th St., second floor, 267-278-0587, www.ascabcapoeira.org
Accidental Tourist
Jonathan Adler
by Amanda McKenna
Book and pottery signing, Tue., Nov. 28, 6 p.m., free, Matthew Izzo Lifestyle, 1109 Walnut St., 215-829-0606 Born and raised in Bridgeton, N.J., Jonathan Adler
On The DL
The Vegan Revolution: A Social Movement for Broad-Based Change
by Will Dean
Thu., Nov. 30, 7:30 p.m., free, Thomas Hall, room 224, Bryn Mawr College, 101 N. Merion Ave., Bryn Mawr, leehall@friendsofanimals.org You say you want a
Kids, etc.
Big Fun for Little Ones
by Jessica Loughery
Enchanted Colonial Village Runs Nov. 24-Dec. 30, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., $9.95, Please Touch Museum, 210 N. 21st St., 215-963-0667, www.pleasetouchmuseum.org Kids can experience a Philadelphia
What We Heart
Knit Wits
by Nyjia Jones
Cashmere yarn, $35 per ball, Loop, 1914 South St., 215-893-9939, www.loopyarn.com Flummoxed over what to get your funky art school sister this holiday season? Knit
Paper Doll:
Bite Me
Rediscovering vampire erotica ... the role-playing way
by Ashlea Halpern
There are vampires among us.
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