A "Conversation with Legends," and the Neumann-Goretti girls' basketball team won its second-straight Catholic League championship. Plus more South Philly news, opinions, and entertainment.
Review Staff Writer was that little nerdy weird kid that wore the glasses, and I had A’s across the board, but my world was comic books,” Darryl “DMC” McDaniels said last week to an eager audi- ence of junior and senior scholars at Universal Audenried Charter High, 3301 Tasker St. “I got teased and bullied and called four eyes because I wore a uniform. Then this thing called hip-hop came over the bridge.” The legendary emcee was referring to his youth in Hollis, Queens, N.Y. when rap music moved over the Whitestone Bridge from the Bronx. Photo by Rob Torney Ends Saturday
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was that little nerdy weird kid that wore the glasses, and I had A’s across the board, but my world was comic books,” Darryl “DMC” McDaniels said last week to an eager audi-ence of junior and senior scholars at Universal Audenried
Charter High, 3301 Tasker St. “I got teased and bullied and called four eyes because I wore a uniform. Then this thing called hip-hop came over the bridge.”
The legendary emcee was referring to his youth in Hollis, Queens, N.Y. when rap music moved over the Whitestone Bridge from the Bronx.
Photo by Rob Torney
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Lifestyles:
An East Passyunk Crossing dweller is loving his turn in a celebrated comedy.
A West Passyunk man died hours after suffering multiple gunshot wounds.
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I’m reading James Ellroy’s “Perfidia,” a fictionalized account of Los Angles at the beginning of World War II.
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To the Editor:One of the best kept secrets,
it seems, in the heart of East Passyunk Crossing is the weekly invitation to attend free Italian cinema at the headquarters of the Sicilian Association of Philadel-phia at 1614 E. Passyunk Ave. The initials on the awning, A.R.S., stand for Associazione Regionale Siciliana, but one does not have to be Sicilian or join the club to take part in this treat. It is open to the public.
The movies, which last about two-and-a-half hours, have Eng-lish subtitles (some of which may or may not match exactly what is being said). They are all filmed ei-ther in Sicily or the mainland and tell stories that pertain sometimes to historic events or customs .
The first film, “The Escort,” which launched the series on Jan. 28, was introduced by attorney and Daily News columnist Christine Flowers, and tells a fictional story
based on a real case where po-lice had to guard, with their lives, judges who were being hunted by the Mafia. The audience did not number more than 15 people.
In the second week’s offering, the story pit two brothers against each other during the Vietnam War era. One is communist and the other fascist. It is outstretched arm ver-sus clenched fist. Lots of fighting and kissing, yelling and scream-ing, which one brother, ahem, tries to drown out with a radio. Smaller audience this time.
The third movie featured a wan-nabe farmer whose life ambition is to own one of those magnificent and famous blood orange farms in Sicily, where the fruit is so valu-able it can be used as currency. Stealing blood oranges, as he often does, could result in a bloody nose or a stay in jail. How he achieves his dream is the gist of the story.
The audience was even smaller.These immensely entertain-
ing movies are presented 6 p.m Wednesdays and repeated on Sun-day at 3:30 p.m. for a total of 10 weeks. There is no charge for ad-mission.
Please consider this an invita-tion.
To the Editor:The governor of Pennsylvania
has taken on false authority to halt the death penalty from Pennsylva-nia law.
The legislatures of state who rep-resent the people of their respec-tive state make the laws for their state in our Democratic republic governments as declared by Abra-ham Lincoln in his 1863 address at Gettysburg, government of, by and for the people, in reference to the federal government, and is true for our state and local governments.
Our laws are written and passed to reflect the will of the people from whom all authority proceed through our god-given right to self-government referred to in our
Declaration of Independence, not self-given false authority of one or many politicians.
Such acts weaken the authority of the legislature and the people and make the legislature to be sal-aried useless drones. No governor of any state has authority to void or repeal a law requiring a death penalty that has been passed by the state legislature. It is an ille-gitimate, despotic act and that of a tyrant on the part of all governors who have done this.
The legislature and courts of Pennsylvania should condemn this despotic act and relevant depart-ments, bureaucracies and agencies should ignore it.
This letter has been sent to vari-ous members of Pennsylvania’s government.
To the Editor:I’ve always been a major movie
buff, and I’m sure I always will be, but quite honestly, I was very disappointed with the Academy Awards this year. When did these award shows that are supposed to be recognizing actors for their out-standing performances become so political? The Oscars are meant to be a podium for talent and art, and nothing more.
There is a time and place for politics, and I do not believe this is the venue. I do not have the same feeling in watching as I have in the past because it is getting to be boring and completely inappropri-ate. This Hollywood production should be enjoyable, not depress-ing, so this process should not be muddled up with the most recent cause. As hard as Neil Patrick Har-ris tried to lighten up the night, it just fell flat in my opinion. Watch-ing a movie in a theater or even in your home is a small escape from reality, and we should want to keep it that way, let us not take ev-erything so seriously and keep the focus on what it is meant to be ... entertainment.
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t 11:42 a.m. Sunday, the victim was in a residence on the 1900 block of South 22nd Street when an uniden-tified gunman opened fire, Officer
Christine O’Brien of the Police Public Affairs Unit said. Authorities found the 54-year-old lying on the location’s front steps and arranged transportation to Pres-byterian Hospital, where personnel pro-nounced him dead at 2:07 p.m.
O’Brien added that police have not re-covered a weapon and lack leads and a description of the assailant.
To report information, call the Homicide Division at 215-686-3334, text PPDTIP (773847) or visit phillypolice.com/forms.
The Philadelphia Police Department and the FBI are desiring the public’s input in bringing to justice a man who robbed a Lower Moyamensing bank Tuesday.
At approximately 10:29 a.m., the at-large figure entered Santander Bank, 2701 S. 10th St., and handed a threatening de-mand note to a teller. Receiving an undis-closed amount of cash, he left the area of the bank, with authorities not aware of the direction in which he fled. Citizens should consider the individual armed and danger-ous. To report information, call the FBI at 215-418-4000, text PPDTIP (773847) or visit phillypolice.com/forms. Tipsters can remain anonymous, with the investigators adding there may be a reward for informa-tion leading to the man’s capture.
A woman remains at-large after having robbed a Lower Moyamensing store.
The figure entered E Z Dollar Plus, 1013 Snyder Ave., at 2:10 p.m. Feb. 15, with surveillance video depicting her conceal-ing merchandise within her waistband.
An employee attempted to halt her antics, but the woman slapped and pushed the worker, who sustained a left-hand injury upon falling. A witness pushed the suspect away, with the perpetrator fleeing the busi-ness and entering the passenger seat of a white-colored vehicle that headed west on Snyder Avenue.
To report information, call South De-tectives Division Det. Hunter at 215-686-3013 with DC#15-03-009743, text PPD-TIP (773847) or visit phillypolice.com/forms.
A 20-year-old local will spend up to 17 years in prison for his role in a West Passyunk shootout.
On Feb. 17, Emmanuel Whitmore, whom court records list as having a 19145 zip code, received his sentence based on a March 2013 incident involving two men. In the matter, Whitmore and the others ex-changed gunfire outside It’z a Kidz Thang day care, 1848 Point Breeze Ave. One bul-let struck a man on the street, but no chil-dren or workers suffered injuries.
The Homicide Warrant Unit de-tained a Grays Ferry resident last week for her alleged role in a vehicular death.
Robin Knight, of the 1700 block of South Taylor Street, awaits a March 11 preliminary hearing following her Feb. 18 arrest. On Sept. 29, 2013, the 24-year-old, reportedly inebri-ated after time with a female friend, sup-posedly operated a 2000 Gold Buick Park Avenue along Roosevelt Boulevard’s in-ner drive from Cottman Avenue yet head-ed northbound in the southbound lanes of travel. Authorities contend she collided head on with an ’03 Silver Mazda MPV containing a three-member family. The trio received transport to Albert Einstein Hospital, where the mother, Althea Taylor, succumbed to her injuries. Her husband and their 3-year-old daughter saw person-nel for non-life threatening injuries.
Law enforcement officials charged Knight with homicide by a vehicle while driving under the influence, involuntary manslaughter and simple assault.
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Authorities are searching for a man who shot another male in Passyunk Square.
At 4:30 p.m. Feb. 13, police responded to a robbery-with-gunshots-heard call on the 1200 block of Ellsworth Street, Detec-tive Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said. Finding the complainant with a gunshot wound to his right leg, they arranged transport to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Detectives learned from the victim that an unknown figure approached him on the 1300 block of Ellsworth Street and demanded “Give me money and your cell phone,” pointing a gun at his prey to in-timidate him. The complainant ran toward a witness’ vehicle coming down the street but felt pain in his leg after hearing a gun-shot. The offender, Tolliver said, took the man’s bag, containing identification, pa-perwork and a hat, before fleeing south-bound on 12th Street. The injured indi-vidual described the attacker as black, 18 to 22 years old and 6 foot; having a dark complexion and a thin build; and being clean-shaven.
To report information, call South De-tectives at 215-685-1635, text PPDTIP (773847) or visit phillypolice.com/forms.
Police are hoping to capture the man who burglarized a Whitman bakery.
At 1:59 a.m. Feb. 15, surveillance video showed the figure entering Baker Broth-ers, 2300 S. Third St., by forcing open the front door lock. He fled after removing cash from the register, with footage show-ing him heading south on Third Street from Wolf Street.
To report information, call South Detec-tives Division Det. Babb at 215-686-3013 with DC#15-03-009702, text PPDTIP (773847) or visit phillypolice.com/forms.
Authorities arrested two men for their supposed illegal entry of a Point Breeze residence.
As reported in the Jan. 15 South Philly Review as “Sounds like trouble,” at 9:35 a.m. Dec. 17, surveillance footage cap-tured the images of the figures after the leader pushed an air conditioner through an abode on the 2100 block of Cross Street.
He allegedly opened the front door for his accomplice, but they fled empty-handed when an audible alarm sounded. Police received several anonymous tips follow-ing the airing of the incident on local news stations and detained 28-year-old Donnell Robinson, of the 1200 block of South 19th Street, on Feb. 14 and 32-year-old Tristian Carter, of the 1400 block of South 18th Street, on Feb. 19.
Law enforcement officials charged Rob-inson with receiving stolen property, reck-lessly endangering another person, pos-session of an instrument of crime, theft, assault and robbery. He had not posted his $200,000 bail as of press time and awaits a March 4 preliminary hearing. They charged his alleged accomplice with bur-glary, criminal mischief and trespassing. He had not posted his $5,000 bail as of press time and awaits a March 10 prelimi-nary hearing.
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The at-large criminals entered Ho Choi Grocery, 2300 S. Ninth St., at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, making purchases and leaving without incident. At 7:45 p.m., surveil-lance video captured them returning to the establishment, where they went behind the counter, forcing a female worker to the ground and covering her mouth. They swiped lottery tickets, cigarettes and an undetermined amount of cash from the register before fleeing east on Wolf Street.
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esperate times call for desperate measures. While Ss. John Neumann and Maria Goretti High School, 1736 S. 10th St., isn’t necessarily
desperate, it’s close. Enter Bruce Robin-son, a 59-year-old businessman without much background in education, who is pulling out all kinds of tricks to turn the once-thriving East Passyunk Crossing educational institution into a desirable school to which any South Philadelphia parent would want to send a child.
“The school has experienced a steep de-cline in enrollment over the last decade, and it’s not only Neumann-Goretti, but many of the Archdiocese schools have been in decline,” Robinson said. “We need to figure out how to stabilize enrollment and make this school vibrant again.”
When the all-male Neumann, formerly 2600 Moore St., merged with the all-female Goretti at the latter’s location in 2004, the enrollment was around 1,300.
“We’re down to about 500 students now,” Robinson confirmed.
Neumann was founded in 1934 as Southeast Catholic and Goretti in ’55 – they’re both treasured institutions in South Philly, schools where generations of South Philadelphians matriculated. But charter schools, Archdiocesan disarray and neigh-borhood demographics have weakened the combined school’s reputation as a thriving school.
Robinson took the reins last September and even converted to Roman Catholicism a couple months later with an expedited adult confirmation process. In the months
since he moved into the head honcho of-fice, he’s taken an aggressive approach to converting Neumann-Goretti into a world-class college preparatory academy.
“College classes, SAT prep courses for juniors and PSAT prep integrated into the curriculum, an internship program where students can get work and life experience with major Center City corporations and some tuition-assistance while doing that,” Robinson listed as some of his immediate tweaks.
Beginning next fall, administrators will add college prep and honors courses and when he began, the school offered five AP courses; they already offer 21.
“We want to be a premiere coed college prep school. We’ve taken a very proactive approach to initiate change, and we’ve gotten support from the Archdiocse to do that,” Robinson said.
What about money? How can he afford all these grand changes? It seems the short answer is support from Faith in the Fu-ture, a private nonprofit that the Catholic Church hired to handle its high schools for five years. The organization fundraises millions annually and gets healthy contri-butions from the Philadelphia School Part-nership, which has distributed $35 million to parochial, charter and traditional public schools. Robinson may need as much as $1 million to initiate all the changes he wants to maintain and further next year: training teachers in SAT prep; recruiting professors to teach college-level courses at the school; outfitting students with mod-ern technology; and instituting a rather progressive idea for a technology and en-
trepreneurship lab. “The other thing that we’re looking to
do is to create a magnet school situation for innovation and entrepreneurship. What we’re going to do is offer more dynamic electives where kids can have an opportu-nity to be their own boss and add courses along that line,” Robinson explained. “You could be interested in the food service in-dustry field and may say ‘Hey, I want to create something where I market a product or run a restaurant’ – you need to know finances and write a business plan and ne-gotiate and know legal documents.”
Three years ago, the Archdiocese of
Philadelphia announced that it would close four of its 17 high schools and close or merge 46 out of 156 elementary schools. On a larger scale, in 1961 approximately 250,000 Philly-area students were enrolled in parochial schools; it’s down to closer to 57,500 now. Charter schools have some-thing to do with that.
“We’re looking to add more rigor to our entire curriculum and not just by elimi-nating [splitting students into divisions of success] but throughout the entire school. We want to make it easy for people when they’re choosing a high school to under-stand exactly who we are and what we stand for,” the Drexel University business administration alum said. “What we have to focus on is not only kids going to col-lege but kids flourishing in college.”
The Neumann-Goretti tuition hovers around $7,500 to $8,000, and the school attracts families of all faiths and back-grounds.
“We’re diverse ethnically, reli-giously, we’re equally male and fe-male – I think that’s one of ourstrengths.”
Contact Staff Writer Bill Chenevert at [email protected] or ext. 117. Com-ment at southphillyreview.com/news/features.
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McDaniels gave an animated and im-passioned presentation in the school’s auditorium as part of the nonprofit Deter-mined to Educate’s “Conversations with Legends” and was joined by Universal’s founder, legendary recording industry pio-neer Kenny Gamble.
“Inside all of you is something that was given to you to use to change the world,” McDaniels said. “There’s a special unique gift in each one of you so that you can change the world — you’re put on this earth for a purpose.”
DMC’s words were preceded by a short introductory film that put his presence in perspective. He’s one-third of one of the very first hip-hop groups to take the U.S. by storm in the first years of the 1980s with smashes like “King of Rock,” “Rock Box,” “It’s Like That,” “Down With the King” and “It’s Tricky.” In fact, he was a student at St. John’s University in Queens when “Sucka Emcee” came on in the lunch-room, and his classmates went nuts. His reaction? “I said this ain’t gonna last.”
Gamble and McDaniels were able to fo-cus their remarks on a few messages: Stay in school and focus one’s education on a special skillset; it may be foolish to try to be the next big star but there’s always a team behind that next big star; and no one’s going to come along and offer you a future on a silver platter.
A student performance kicked off the event when senior Nafis Johnson per-formed a track that he’s reportedly gotten on Spotify and is for sale on iTunes. The icons were impressed.
“Oh, I didn’t know you were gonna flow like THAT. He was spittin’ positivity — I respect that,” McDaniels said.
“You took the initiative of your own to get it to iTunes and Spotify because the in-dustry is a crazy place right now,” Gamble added.
Hot 107.9’s Laiya St. Clair performed the role of facilitator and asked the two to
detail their come-up before they became household names.
“I grew up in South Philly. I went to school at E.M. Stanton School [1700 Christian St.] and graduated from Barratt Junior High School [1599 Wharton St.],” Gamble, who stressed the importance of making one’s way through life lawfully, said. “You can’t do anything in the world without money, and I’m talking about making legal money.”
For the pioneer, it included working at grocery stores, washing dishes and being a technician at Jefferson Hospital.
He never let go of his musical dreams, and as he told senior Jasmine Smith later, “you can do both. I was still writing songs, but I had to pick up that check from Jef-ferson Hospital every two weeks.”
Of course, Gamble and Leon Huff would go on to form Philadelphia International Records in ’71 and took the world by storm producing and writing hits for The
Intruders, The Delfonics, The O’Jays and The Stylistics.
“We started our own record company because there wasn’t much opportunity,” Gamble, lighting a fire under his schools’ scholars, said. “You can’t sit around and say they won’t let me do this or they won’t let me do that — you have the power to do whatever you wanna do. You have to have patience and be committed to what you’re doing.”
“FIRST TO GO gold, first to go platinum, first on MTV, first with sneaker deals, first on the cover of Rolling Stone,” McDaniels rattled off a few of his accomplishments when student-emcee Nasif asked DMC what it was like on the way to the top.
“Here’s a little info, lesson one: Don’t follow your friends. You can take their ad-vice. Here’s another lesson, persistence: believe in yourself, and show somebody that you believe in what you’ve got is valu-
able,” the 50-year-old mogul told Nasif. Perhaps the most resonant message was
that Audenried scholars, who focus on specifics through their STEM Academy, Hospitality and Human Service Academy, and Arts, Entertainment and Communica-tion programs, should aim at attainable targets.
“Today, I believe, you have to be specif-ic,” Gamble, who says people ask him for a job regularly but rarely know how to offer their specialty, said. “I’ll do anything [they say] — no, you have to be something. A teacher, a doctor, a lawyer, a cook, a me-chanic, a dentist, you can sharpen your skills, and you won’t be just someone with a diploma.”
McDaniels abetted this later, saying “We need someone to be the sound man, or a lawyer so we don’t get jerked around when we sign the contract, or marketing people, audio and visual,” he went on. “This genera-tion also needs to understand that there are careers in the career that you love. A lot of us have a habit of thinking I gotta be the singer or the rapper or I gotta be LeBron [James] — you don’t have to be Beyonce. Wouldn’t you like to be the boss that gets to boss Beyonce around? Like the director? All of us can’t be LeBron, but LeBron needs an agent.”
Gamble compounded this by adding “you have to find out what you’re really good at doing and have a plan A and a plan B. Plan A is get as much education as you can on a spe-cific topic — technology, that’s the future, you got to know technology,” the 71-year-old said.
Before the stunningly-talented sophomore, Jofan Martin, concluded the afternoon with a spot-on performance of John Legend’s “All of Me,” McDaniels offered one more piece of advice.
It came when St. Clair asked them to fin-ish this line: “The reason that I am great is because …” To which McDaniels said “the reason that I am great is because one positive person has more power than a million nega-tive people.”
Contact Staff Writer Bill Chenevert at [email protected] or ext. 117. Com-ment at southphillyreview.com/news/features.
One-hour one-on-one Computer Tutoring for Se-niors by appointment; Beginner English as a Second Language Class 12:30 p.m. Feb. 26; Music and Movement for Preschool-ers 10:30 a.m. Feb. 27; STEM Gems 10 a.m. Feb. 28; Chess Club 2-5 p.m. March 4. 932 S. Seventh St. 215-686-1766.
Sleepy-time Stories 10 a.m. and Minecraft Club 2 p.m. Feb. 28; Toddler Storytime 10 a.m. March 3. 2437 S. Broad St. 215-685-1758.
Laura Lippman reads from “Hush Hush: A Tess Monaghan Novel” with Duane Swierc-zynski reading from “Canary” 7:30 p.m. Feb. 26; SmART Readers: Art and Lit-eracy Program 4 p.m. Feb. 27; World Builders Writing Club 3 p.m. Feb. 28; Rainbow Train 2 p.m. March 1; Baby & Toddler Storytime 11 a.m., SmART Readers: Art and Literacy Program 4
p.m., Monday Poets: Lamont Dixon and Speech Therapy 6:30 p.m. and Framing Fraktur Artists’ Panel 7:30 p.m. March 2; Richard Price reads from “The Whites” 7:30 p.m. March 3; The Artist at Work: Brian Floca, Author/Illustrator of Loco-motive 10 a.m. March 4. 1901 Vine St. 215-686-5322.
Healthy Cooking for Teens 3:30 p.m. March 3. 1201 S. 23rd St. 215-685-1899.
LEAP After School Activities 3 to 5:30 p.m. daily; Computer Help for Beginners
noon March 2. Interested individuals must reserve space by 11 a.m. 1935 Shunk St. 215-685-1755.
Wee Ones Story-time 10 a.m. and Ready-to-Read Story-time 11 a.m. Feb. 26; Family Storytimes 11 a.m. Feb. 28; SmART Readers: Art and Literacy Program 4 p.m. March 2 and 3; Yoga Class for Children 5:30 p.m. and for Adults 6:30 p.m. March 4. 200 Snyder Ave. 215-685-1754. SPR
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, 11th and Whar-ton streets, holds a Police Service Area 2 Meeting 6 p.m. Feb. 26 at the Mummers Museum, 1100 S. Second St.; and a Police Service Area 1 Meeting 6:30 p.m. March 4 at the Santore Library, 932 S. Seventh St. 215-686-3030. phillypolice.com/districts/3rd.
holds a Finance Committee meeting 7 to 8 p.m. March 2 ([email protected] for location); and a Volunteer Meeting 7 to 7:45 p.m. March 3 at the Mt. Moriah Church, 410 Wharton St. [email protected]. dickin-sonsquarewest.org.
holds a Red Gravy Cook-off Fundraiser with blind tasting judges 2 to 4 p.m. March 1 at the Neumann Gorreti Caf-eteria, 1736 S. 10th St. ($20 tickets in-cludes salad, bread, dessert and beverage). E-mail [email protected] to enter. [email protected]. epcrossing.org.
holds a monthly meeting 7 to 8 p.m. March 3 at the South of South Neighborhood Associa-tion office, 1901 Christian St.
holds a Communications Committee meeting 7:30 to 9 p.m. March 3 at a TBD location (e-mail [email protected] for details); and recommends attendance at the Hawthorne Cultural Center Advisory Council meeting 6 to 7:30 p.m. March 4 at 1200 Carpenter St. 215-735-1225. [email protected]. hecphilly.org.
holds a Birthday Bash 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at SouthHouse, 2535 S. 13th St.; and a New Caregiver Support Group 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Feb. 27 at the Fumo Family Branch, 2437 S. Broad St. [email protected]. lomophilly.org.
, 2433 S. 15th St., hosts Enhance Fitness 9 a.m. (Free), Learn to crotchet or knit 10:30 a.m. (Free), and Musical Rockers 1 p.m. (Free) Feb. 26; Zumba class 9:30 a.m. ($4), iPad experience 10 a.m. (Free) and Nutrition Bingo 10 a.m. ($1) Feb. 27; Morning Stretch 10 a.m. (Free) and iPad experience 10 a.m. (Free) March 2; EnhanceFitness 9 a.m. (Free), Bead Work Learn To Make Beautiful Jewelry 9:30 a.m. (Free), Bingo
12:45 p.m. (Free), and Theater Group 1 p.m. (Free) March 3; and a Next Chapter Discussion 10 a.m. (Free) and Relaxation 11:30 a.m. (Free) March 4. 215-717-1971. caringpeoplealliance.org.
holds a Free Clothing & Items Giveaway with items for men, kids, home, ladies, and more 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Feb. 27 at the church, 1415-19 Wharton St. (Bring your own bags). Info: 215-336-8163.
meets 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Epiphany of Our Lord Church, 1121 Jackson St. 215-334-1035.
, holds a Neighborhood Walk 7 to 8 p.m. March 3 (e-mail [email protected] for details); and a Commu-nity Outreach Committee Meeting 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. March. 4 (location TBD, e-mail [email protected] for details). [email protected]. newboldneighbors.org.
holds a General Meeting 6;30 to 8 p.m. March 3 at Annunciation BVM Church Hall, 1511 S. 10th St. (Dickinson Street entrance). [email protected]. passyunksquare.org.
, 405 Queen St., hosts Jazz & Joe (BYO, coffee/tea and sweets provided, do-nations encouraged) 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at Gloria Dei Old Swedes’ Church, 916 S. Swanson St.; a K9 Nose Work Free Dis-cussion 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 26 at Mark-ward Playground, 400 S. Taney St.; and South Philly Green Drinks 6 to 8 p.m. March 4 at Bridget Foy’s, 200 South St. 215-339-0975. [email protected]. qvna.org.
holds movie screenings every Wednesday at A.R.S. Club, 1614 E. Passyunk Ave. This week: “The Son’s Room” on March 4. For more info, call 215-681-3129.
, 1901 Christian St., holds a Triangles Cleanup 10 to 11 a.m. March 1 at the 23rd and South Streets Grays Ferry Tri-angles. southofsouth.org. 215-732-8446.
holds a monthly meeting 6:30 to 8 p.m. March 2 at the school, 1700 Christian St. [email protected].
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cknowledging acting as “a mer-cenary profession,” Dan Hodge has derived dollars and distinction for diligently delighting audienc-
es. Through Sunday, the happy hire is captivating crowds through the Walnut Street Theatre’s presentation of “Pri-vate Lives,” portraying Victor Prynne, a honeymooner whose bride unbridles her fiery feelings for her ex-husband as the latter male and his new spouse celebrate their union at the same seaside resort.
“It’s a lovely experience that I feel very fortunate to have,” the 33-year-old resident of the 900 block of Sigel Street said of his role in the Noël Coward creation. “The work is tightly sprung and exquisitely built, so I’m having immense fun with it.”
In making his fourth appearance for the Walnut, with “Private Lives” marking his third mainstage show, the East Passyunk Crossing inhabit-ant has given Prynne clownish quali-
ties that complement the serious sides of the role. The character’s duality has led Hodge to dub the piece, which is cele-brating the 85th anniversary of its world premiere, “a wonderful tragedy couched in a wonderful comedy for Victor.” That Prynne must prompt himself to alter his perceptions of love appeals to the ac-tor, who, especially through his Phila-delphia Artists’ Collective co-founding artistic director duties, has always cher-ished challenging patrons to ponder the human condition.
“With something like ‘Private Lives,’ which Coward wrote to inspire laughs, the discoveries might not appear as tough to make as those within classical plays, but the lessons are no less vital to theatergoers,” Hodge, whose infatuation with William Shakespeare forms the foundation of his affinity for centuries-old compositions, said of situating one-self within a text. “The true discipline is getting to the root of a story, and that
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Hodge, who noted he gains inspirational satisfaction from empowering patrons, deeming that his ultimate vocation, is like-wise feeling compelled, particularly since “Private Lives” is helping him to revisit and more intensely appreciate his comedic sen-sitivities. Due to deliver more laughs when the Collective stages the Broad Street Min-istry-located “The Fair Maid of the West” come April, he rejoiced in being able to balance emotionally-heavy endeavors with lighter looks at the sublime gift of life.
“No matter the sort of work, it’s key to respect how playable all these scripts and texts are,” Hodge said, emphasizing the eternal pull that classical pieces will exert. “There’s always more meaning to obtain from taking on projects with devotion to the craft and the edification of the audience as our big goals. We are just parts of the chain that connects art with humanity.”
THE ERUDITE INDIVIDUAL looked to become a link in the figurative binder as a Texas-reared youth. A voracious movie watcher, he experienced his “aha moment” at age 8, falling for the 1931 version of “Franken-stein.”
“I remember that my heart was break-ing for the monster,” Hodge said, adding that when catching the credits, he decided “That’s what I want to do” upon seeing the name of fellow Walnut Street Theatre performer Boris Karloff as the titular behe-moth. “The emotion he was able to convey stunned me, and I wanted to do just what he’d done in stirring up some reactions.”
Following community theater efforts in the Lone Star State, he matriculated at the University of Evansville, with the Indiana-situated institution’s renowned program en-abling him to understand how to transform his enthusiasm into a bankable pursuit.
“I learned how to work hard and smart,” Hodge said of his undergraduate instruction. “I wanted to develop my comprehension of the theater as a craft, and it’s at Evansville that I really feel I came into my own as an actor.”
He also credits the school for his beatifi-cation of the Bard, touting the Shakespear-ean canon as matchless and timeless.
“There is nothing like it, and it definitely requires something different within us to grasp the range of human experience con-tained there,” Hodge remarked. “So many years in, I’m still finding myself reading the plays and reading about the plays to pick up and share lessons.”
He used his high estimation of the play-wright to inspire master’s degree studies at the University of San Diego. Entranced with training to honor classical plays, which he lauds for their immediacy and intimacy in how overseers staged them as opposed to the darkened settings that often mark and even plague contemporary creations, he felt he could offer that interest in earnest to Philadelphia audiences, establishing the Collective in 2008.
“I knew that I could do work that I would be proud of here and that I could do it with very respectable artists,” Hodge, who has won two Barrymore Awards for his engross-ing allegiance to excellence, said. “Through either classical or newer works, I’m always looking to evolve because complacency is death.”
The never-flagging figure finds the for-mer sort of productions far more engaging, with the Collective, which staged its first full production in ’10 and often relies on South Philadelphians for its pieces, issuing comprehensive challenges whose solutions do not come easily but whose resolution leaves everyone, especially Hodge and his peers, feeling part of a grander plot. Desir-ing cross-pollination within the arts, he as-pires for more than personal merit in acting and directing, the latter an endeavor that he
is enjoying by helming “Othello” through March 14 for Curio Theatre Co., even ask-ing an aspiring company creator to deliber-ate on what he wants to provide ticket pur-chasers.
“I feel more judicious when directing,” Hodge, who will mesh his two chief talents in April when the Collective and the Wilma Theater co-present “The Rape of Lucrece,” his ’14 FringeArts Festival entry, said. “As I’ll always contend, though, progression is key.”
Feeling extremely settled and confident in his abilities, the dual threat, who in late March will join wife Krista Apple-Hodge and others for the Wilma-based “Hamlet,” looks forward to connecting with more thespians to produce works that have stood the test of time and others that could age gracefully, too.
“Early on in life, I didn’t even know someone could major in theater,” Hodge said. “Now, I can’t imagine life without it.” SPR
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Contact Managing Editor Joseph Myers at [email protected] or ext. 124. Com-ment at southphillyreview.com/news/lifestyles.
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’m reading James Ellroy’s “Perfidia,” a fictionalized account of Los Angles at the beginning of World War II. Suddenly I’m back, caught in that vortex of time. Mem-
ories long buried bubble to the surface. I was not quite seven when the war was over. So what are these memories? Which ones did I actually experience, which are the result of the stories my father told me in the years after the war and which are those told by my seventh grade teacher, Miss Young?
Dad had been drafted into the Navy toward the end of the war. He was medically dis-charged because of a sciatica condition, so he did not see any fighting. He also had a vivid imagination, so whether it is true that he had been assigned to a ship eventually sunk by the Japanese and that his discharge saved him, is a matter for family speculation. Miss Young was a feisty, wonderful, very pa-triotic woman. An ardent admirer of Presi-dent Dwight D. Eisenhower and the budding United Nations, she brought World War II alive in her classroom. So what I am about to tell you is a mixture of dimly lit memory, World War II movies and the tales of my fa-ther and Miss Young of Furness Junior High School circa 1950.
The war hit home one night in my grandfa-ther’s house at Ninth and Wolf streets. Uncle Chibby was drafted into the war. The wails of my mother and her sisters still pierce my heart. He was one of the lucky ones. Sur-vived battle with Gen. George S. Patton’s troops before irony struck. Got burned badly in a barracks fire before he got home. Lived but never to tell the tale. We kids in the fam-ily were always curious about the ugly pink scars on his body that never dimmed his smile.
Other men in our family were also called. My aunt and her teenage daughter moved in with us to spend the duration of the war until my uncle returned. Movie magazines and banana sandwiches are the most vivid memories of my teenage cousin. Turned out we did lose a cousin I never met to a German U-boat. He was only 18.
Uncle “Boot” was shot in the foot and captured by the Germans. Wore an artificial shoe ever after, hence the nickname “Boot.” Dad still kept the yellowing clipping of his release. Uncle Boot smiling, wearing a Ha-waiian shirt and a lei around his neck. Was he on R and R in Hawaii? If so, had it really been the Germans and not the Japanese who had captured him? Fog of memory.
I remember the blackouts. Had to turn out all the lights at night during a blackout. Practice in case Hitler’s Luftwaffe ever got across the ocean and did a London blitz on us. The less light, the tougher for the Nazis to hit their targets. Scared lying under the blankets, not so much of the Germans as the dark.
My father told me about the heroics of Colin Kelly, the American pilot whose plane was fatally hit so he dive-bombed into the smokestack of a Japanese battleship. Kelly was a genuine hero who sacrificed his life to save his crew, but it turns out he never did fly his plane into that ship. I only found that out now in researching this column. Fog of war.
Saw all those war films with Dad. They were still running in our neighborhood movie house five or six years after the war ended. Not all the films had happy end-ings. Hard to put a happy ending on “Cor-regidor,” “Bataan” and “Wake Island.” All places where the Japanese took it to us in the Pacific in the early days after Pearl Har-bor. John Garfield as Al Schmid in “Pride Of The Marines.” John Wayne, a former college football player who never served a day in the military — he was too important to the mov-ie studio — became a war “hero” through his films. “The Fighting Seabees” and “Flying Tigers,” how we loved him.
Even Superman fought the Nazis and Japs in the comics and short animated features. The “Japs” were always pictured as little di-abolical yellow men — a racist stereotype — grinning through large, prominent teeth. The “Japs” could lure you into a trap by speaking perfect English at night while you were hid-ing in your dark foxhole. The “Japs” were always more nasty in their movie portrayals than even the Nazis. Experts in methods of torture. Served them right when we dropped not one, but two atomic bombs, the prevail-ing opinion.
Hitler was a madman, but even after his demise, one heard whispers of respect for his war machine. The Holocaust wasn’t a fa-miliar term, the subject never covered in my schooling. Hitler’s master scheme was only apparent in the Movietone News (The Eyes and Ears of the World) in black and white clips of gaunt skeleton-like prisoners being freed from concentration camps. Quick shots of the crematoriums. None of the abject hor-ror really registering. Creepy anti-Semitism — ”Hitler was right”— not in my predomi-nantly Jewish neighborhood — helped me escape the virulent strain of Jew hatred.
Mom was super-patriotic. Nothing she liked better than to sing those old flag-wav-ing songs. They were real to her. More than a song.
Dad warns me. War ahead with Stalin’s Soviet Union. Inevitable. Maybe Red Chi-na, too. Atomic bombs turn into Hydrogen bombs. Threat of extinction. Joe McCarthy on the horizon. SPR
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Smith’s finest film to date was also his big breakthrough, wherein he played Paul, a con-artist who convinces a posh New York couple (Stockard Channing and Don-ald Sutherland) that he’s chums with their Ivy League kids — and the son of Sidney Poitier. Paul’s infiltration of an Upper West Side clan does more than move him up the social ladder — it upends the family’s so-cial views.
Before movies about creatures blow-ing up cities were a dime a dozen, Roland Emmerich had viewers gobsmacked with his alien-invasion disasterpiece, which saw the White House gloriously blown to smithereens. Smith played a military pilot who formed an unlikely partnership with a plucky nerd (Jeff Goldblum), and their re-spective brawn and brains likely saved the next landmark.
Say what you will about Michael Bay (namely, that he’s a greedy, sexist, man-boy of a filmmaker), but the director sure knows how to put on a chic spectacle. In this sequel to Bay’s 1995 hit, Smith and Martin Lawrence reprise their roles as Mi-ami cops who might kill each other before the bad guys. Bay ups the ante with epic action sequences, like a car chase involv-ing a boat on a trailer and vehicles that feel like they’re whizzing overhead.
Smith earned his second Oscar nod (following 2001’s “Ali”) for playing real-life figure Chris Gardner, who struggled, along with his son (played by Smith’s son, Jaden), with a year-long bout of home-lessness. The triumph of this don’t-give-up weepie is primarily thanks to Smith, whose paternal instincts lend themselves to a heartbreaking performance.
A highly atmospheric adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel, this post-apoc-alyptic one-man show leaves Smith alone in an abandoned New York with his dog — until the nocturnal zombies show up. “I Am Legend” stands out as one of the rare bloodsucking, populist films with genuine pathos. Amid his character’s loneliness, Smith makes a chat with a mannequin aim straight for your tear ducts.
Comment and see the trailers for this week’s movies at southphillyreview.com/arts-and-enter-tainment/movies.
As Paul in 1993’s “Six Degrees of Separation,” Will Smith tests the trust of an upscale New York couple.
Smith, as Dr. Robert Neville, must com-bat mutants in 2007’s “I Am Legend.”
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Through March 1. Tickets: $25-$43. Theatre Horizon, 401 DeKalb St., Norristown. 610-283-2230. theatrehorizon.org.
Through March 1. Tickets: $15-$34. The Sedgwick Theater, 7137 Germantown Ave. 215-987-4450. quintessencetheatre.org.
Through March 1. Tickets: $10. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St. 267.519.9651. philamoca.org.
Through March 1. Tickets: $25-$30. EgoPo Classic Theater at the Latvian Society, 531 N. Seventh St. 267-273-1414. egopo.org.
Through March 6. Tickets: $25-$59. Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad St. 215-985-0420. philadelphiatheatrecompany.org.
Through March 8. Tickets: $30-$40. Walnut Street Theater, 825 Walnut St. 215-574-3550. walnutstreettheatre.org.
Through March 8. Tickets: $10-$25. The Skybox at the Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. 215-423-0254. simpaticotheatre.org.
Through March 8. Tickets: $37-$62. People’s Light & Theatre, 39 Conestoga Rd., Malvern. 610-644-3500. peopleslight.org.
Through March 8. Tickets: $10-$35. Studio X, 1340 S. 13th St. 215-218-4022. theatreexile.org.
Through March 14. Tickets: $15-$35. Calvary Center for Culture and Community. 4740 Baltimore Ave. 215-525-1350 curiotheatre.org.
Through March 15. Tickets: $15-$50. Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. Second St. 215-922-1122. ardentheatre.org.
Through March 22. Tickets: $25-$55. Penn’s Landing Playhouse at the Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus Blvd. 855-448-7469. thedivorceesclub.com.
Through April 5. Free-$20. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 215-763-8100. philamuseum.org.
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Through April 19. Tickets: Free-$15.95. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 215-299-1000. ansp.org.
Through April 26. Tickets: Free-$10. The Rosen-bach Museum and Library, 2008-2010 Delancey Place. 215-732-1600. rosenbach.org.
Through May 10. Free-$20. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 215-763-8100- philamuseum.org.
Through May 31. Tickets: Free-$15.95. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel Univer-sity, 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 215-299-1000. ansp.org.
Through Sept. 6. Tickets: $8-$29.50. The Franklin Institute, 222 N. 20th St. 215-448-1200. fi.edu.
Through Nov. 1. Tickets: $10-$15. University of Penn-sylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South St. 215-898-4000. penn.museum.
Now open. Tickets: Free-$12. National Museum of American Jewish History, 101 S. Independence Mall East. 215-923-3811. nmajh.org.
An Azuka world premiere, "Moon Cave" examines how a notorious past can prove rocky ground for establish-ing new love and trust March 4-22. Tickets: $5-$20. Off-Broad Street Theater, 1636 Sansom St. 215-563-1100. azukatheatre.org.
continues through Saturday with special brunch, lunch and dinner menus priced at $15, $25 or $35. Various locations along East Passyunk Avenue. 215-336-1455. eastpassyunkrestaurantweek.com.
is best known for his work on Whose Line Is It Anyway? but his The Smartest Man in the World podcast is huge, too 7:30 and 10 p.m., Feb. 27. Tickets: $22-$30. Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St. 215-496-9001. heliumcomedy.com.
has got to be the week’s best dance party 9 p.m. Feb. 27. Tickets: $12. Under-ground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. undergroundarts.org.
combines the elegance and spirit of dance choreography with the confrontational physicality of boxing Feb. 27-28. Tickets: $29. FringeArts, 140 N. Columbus Blvd. 215-413-9006. fringearts.com.
, a great opportunity to show children the magic in musical instruments, hosted by storyteller Charlotte Blake Alston, Feb. 28-March 2. Tickets: $10. The Academy of Music Ballroom, 240 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999. philorch.org.
is about as cool as sleepovers get 6:30 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: $50 per person. Independence Seaport Museum, 211 S. Columbus Blvd. 215-413-8655. phillyseaport.org.
is Dito van Reigers-berg’s brainchild, and she’ll explore new territory at Franky Brad-ley’s 8 p.m., Feb. 28. Tickets: $15-$29. Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St. facebook.com/MarthaGrahamCracker.
, in its 38th year, lets fans meet and greet their favorite Flyers all for a good cause benefiting Flyers charities 1:30 p.m. March 1. Tickets: $15-$35. Wells Fargo Center, 3601 S. Broad St. 215-336-3600. flyers.nhl.com.
is a send-up of the wildly popular "Fifty Shades of Grey" that offers laughs and blushes 7:30 p.m. March 3. Tickets: $31.50-$49.50. Kimmel Center, Merriam Theater, 1500 Walnut St. 215-670-2300. kimmelcenter.org.
fresh out of his seat at the CBS “Late Late Show,” the Scottish-born humorist brings his acerbic perspective on pop and politics to Broad Street 8 p.m. March 4. Tickets: $43.50. Merriam The-ater, 250 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999. kimmelcenter.org.
Through Feb. 28. Tickets: $35-$158. Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999. philorch.org.
Through March 1. Tickets: $12-$30. Skinner Studio on the third floor of Plays & Players, 1714 Delanc-ey Place. 866-811-4111. playsandplayers.org.
Through March 1. Tickets: $20-$85. Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. 215-574-3550. walnutstreettheatre.org.
Through March 1. Tickets: $20-$105.50. The Kimmel Center, 240 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999. kimmelcenter.org.
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s big annual event, The Phila-delphia Flower Show, which dates back to 1829, is here Feb. 28-March 8 with a “Celebrate the Movies” theme inspired by Disney and Pixar films Tickets: $15-$30. Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch St. 215-988-8800. theflowershow.com.
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8 p.m. Feb. 26. Tickets: $39.50-$125. The Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside. 215-572-7650. keswicktheatre.com.
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: Free-$15. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South St. 215-898-4000. penn.museum.
2 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: $10. Drexel University Westphal Col-lege of Media Arts & Design, 3501 Filbert St. drexel.edu/westphal.
8 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: $15-$20. International House Philadelphia, 3701 Chestnut St. 215-387-5125. philajazzproject.org.
8 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: $52-$210. Wells Fargo Center,
3601 S. Broad St. 215-336-3600. flyers.nhl.com.
8:30 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: $10. Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St. 267-639-4528. bootandsaddlephilly.com.
8:30 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: $20-$25. Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St. 215-627-1332. electricfactory.info.
9 p.m. Feb. 28. Tickets: $15. Johnny Brenda’s. 1201 N. Frankford Ave. 215-739-9684. johnnybrendas.com.
March 1-2. Tickets: $20-$60. Zeller-bach Theatre at the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut St. 215-898-3900. annenbergcenter.org.
5 p.m. March 1. Tickets: $15-$50. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215-222-1400. worldcafe-live.com.
8 p.m. March 1. Tickets: $8. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215-222-1400. worldcafelive.com.
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p.m. March 1. Tickets: $30-$57.50. The Keswick Theatre, 291 N. Keswick Ave., Glenside. 215-572-7650. keswicktheatre.com.
7 p.m. March. 2. Tickets: $20-$160. Wells Fargo Center, 3601 Broad St. 215.399.7600. nba.com/sixers.
8 p.m. March 2. Tickets: $3. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215-922-6888. thetroc.com.
8:30 p.m. March 2. Tickets: $13-$15. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. 215-232-2100. utphilly.com.
8:30 p.m. March 2. Tickets: $20. Boot & Saddle, 1131 S. Broad St. 267-639-4528. bootandsaddlephilly.com.
March 3-5. Tickets: $10.50-$15. The Painted Bride, 230 Vine St. 215-925-9914. paintedbride.org.
: 6 p.m. March 4. Free. Moore College of Art & Design, 20th Street and The Benjamin Franklin Parkway. 215-965-4000. moore.edu.
7 p.m. March 4. Tickets: $8-$13. MilkBoy Philly, 1100 Chestnut St. 215-925-6455. milkboyphilly.com.
7:30 p.m. March 3. Tickets: $10-$15. Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center, 300 S. Broad St. 215-893-1999. kimmelcenter.org.
8 p.m. March 4. Tickets: $35. Theatre of Living Arts, 334 South St. 215-922-1011. tlaphilly.com.
8:30 p.m. March 4. Tickets: $26. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. 215-232-2100. utphilly.com.
9 p.m. March 4. Tickets: $15. Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St. under-groundarts.org.
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he Philadelphia Flower Show, the oldest and largest event of its kind in the world, opens Saturday and runs through March 8 at the Pennsylvania
Convention Center.This year’s theme is “Celebrate the
Movies,” with a salute to Disney and Pix-ar films. Food often plays a pivotal role in dramas, comedies and romantic com-edies, so here are my picks on where to have lunch or dinner if you are going to The Flower Show. I also feature the films that helped me make my choices.
“Ratatouille” is an enchanting film about a rat who wants to be a chef in Paris. Nora Ephron’s “Julie and Julia” tells the story about how Julia Child be-gan to cook in her tiny Paris apartment during the 1950s and of New Yorker Ju-lie Powell, who decides to cook her way through Child’s book “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” first published in ’61. If these films bring out the escargot lover in you, I suggest dinner at Bibou, Pierre and Charlotte Calmels’ jewel box bistro at 1009 S. Eighth St. The couple plan to close the restaurant for renovations about six weeks from now, so choose your best bottle of wine and head over to the Italian Market. Bibou is cash only.
In Walt Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp,” Lady, the cocker spaniel, shares a roman-tic plate of spaghetti with Tramp, who is a mutt. I love the scene when each has the end of a strand of spaghetti in their mouths and they nosh until their lips meet.
Who can forget Jack Lemmon straining spaghetti with a tennis racquet in “The
Apartment,” which won the Best Picture Oscar in ’60? He also made meatballs to delight Shirley MacLaine.
“Moonstruck,” which earned Cher an Oscar, has many scenes that feature Ital-ian fare. Cher wants manicotti for dinner before her fiancé flies off to Sicily. Olym-pia Dukakis, who also won the Acad-emy Award for her work, fries up Italian
bread with an egg and roasted peppers for breakfast. She also orders minestrone as her antipasto while dining in a neighbor-hood Italian restaurant.
These films bring me to Dante & Lui-gi’s, 762 S. 10th St., — one of my favorite South Philly Italian restaurants. It opened in 1899 and serves one of the most deli-cious, most lovingly-prepared lasagnas I
have ever tasted. The pasta is handmade, rolled into thin sheets and layered with Bolognese, ricotta and mozzarella. The lasagnas are built into large sheet pans, sliced into individual portions and served piping hot.
Tre Scalini, 1915 East Passyunk Ave., is another Italian restaurant where custom-ers are treated like family. I always enjoy mussels, fresh pasta or a perfectly grilled veal chop that is getting more difficult to find on restaurant menus.
In “Sleepless in Seattle,” Tom Hanks and Rob Reiner share a jumbo burger and a beer lunch at Seattle’s Pike Place Mar-ket. In “You’ve Got Mail,” another Nora Ephron film, Meg Ryan scolds Hanks for taking all the caviar garnish from the rim of an egg salad mold and begins to carve a turkey sitting on a buffet table during a pre-Thanksgiving party at an author’s home.
Ryan also gives a delightful perfor-mance in “When Harry Met Sally,” writ-ten by Ephron and directed by Reiner. During lunch with Billy Crystal at Katz’s Deli, she prompts a woman at another table to say “I’ll have what she’s having.” The funny part is the woman at the next table is Reiner’s mother, Estelle.
Burgers, turkey sandwiches, Jewish deli and more can be found at the Reading Terminal Market, 12th and Filbert streets. The Market has extended hours during the Flower Show, so plan on breakfast, lunch or dinner. Just take a walk around, and let the aromas wafting through the market help you to build up an appetite.
ailing from a land well-versed in the joys in inde-pendence, Franca DiRenzo loved the liberty involved
in opening Ristorante Tre Scalini
in 1994. Having helped to helm the West Passyunk-situated Fran-camaria, the proprietor has suc-ceeded as a solo presence and is proudly presenting a stellar menu for the third annual East Passyunk Restaurant Week.
“From the beginning, I wanted my own place,” the Passyunk Square inhabitant said from her establishment, 1915 E. Passyunk Ave. “I had no fear about going out on my own because I love what I do.”
The native of Southern Italy’s Molise region came to the United States in ’68 and has won regard for trumpeting traditional treats, especially since she relocated Tre Scalini from 1533 S. 11th St. to its current address in 2007.
“She wanted a bigger space,” daughter and site general manag-er Francesca DiRenzo-Kauffman said of her self-taught matriarch, noting the eatery can accommo-
date 108 patrons. “It’s worked out well for what she’s looking to ac-complish here, which is being re-spectful to her roots.”
Being so means that the chef emphasizes nutritious options, a stance that is particularly evident through Saturday, as she is offer-ing delectable three-course dishes for $35.
“It’s a great way to intro-duce ourselves to new traffic,” DiRenzo-Kauffman said of her mother’s Restaurant Week in-volvement. “We have a welcom-ing atmosphere, so we want to share out creations with as many people as possible.”
Tre Scalini has selected two seafood plates as second-course entrees, with its Halibut Acqua Pazzo available as a supple-ment. Like other renditions of the protein-packed entree, which originated among Neapolitan area fishermen, the coveted catch ben-
efits from the marriage of flaky fish and poaching liquid, with the other elements certain to secure repeated utterances of “Brava” for DiRenzo.
“This is a dish that’s important to me,” the smiling cook said. “It’s simple but refreshing.”
Season the halibut on both sides with the salt and pepper. Begin heating a skillet over medium-high, add 1 to 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, and begin to sear the fish on one side. Top with the garlic, tomatoes, olives, capers and to-mato sauce, and pour the poach-ing liquid over all the ingredients, along with the fish.
Bring to a boil, lower to medium heat, cover and allow all to poach for approximately five to six min-utes. Plate the filet, and pour re-maining sauce over it.
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SPISCES (Feb. 19 to March 20): You may be accused of making an impulsive decision, but the opposite is the case.
After weighing all of the evidence, it will become evident that you can not make any other choice. Lucky number: 162.
DARIES (March 21 to April 20): Attend to questions con-cerning the legalities of all you’re doing in connection with
a property or family matter. Don’t dismiss someone’s comments as petty — he or she could be pointing out important matters that have been overlooked. Lucky number: 258.
FTAURUS (April 21 to May 20): Someone is talking about moving, and an announcement of his or her imminent de-
parture will take you by surprise, as you’ve always looked to this friend for advice. Take heart in the fact that he or she will be only a phone call away. Lucky number: 046.
GGEMINI (May 21 to June 20): Behind-the-scenes activi-ties become busy, so you will not get away with taking it
easy. You might hide in the background in the hope of escaping work, but there’s plenty to be done. Learning through trial and error becomes valuable. Lucky number: 193.
HCANCER (June 21 to July 22): Be ready to do a par-tial or complete U-turn where money ties with others are
concerned. A disclosure about handling finances will provide a totally new perspective. Take advantage of a powerful individual who will offer suggestions for making a business venture more profitable. Lucky number: 650.
aLEO (July 23 to Aug. 22): Don’t be drawn into squabbles in the workplace. Opportunities are ripe to improve family
and property matters, as there is a great balance between home life and career. Lucky number: 203.
sVIRGO (Aug. 23 to Sept. 22): Focus on what you aim to achieve, and you’ll be able to take pride in the results.
A creative skill may boost business prospects in a way that previ-ously had not occurred. Lucky number: 029.
dLIBRA (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22): The support of a patient teacher or mentor will help to repair shattered dreams.
Thanks to that person’s guidance, you will learn the importance of staying power. Changes will seem less scary after receiving his or her wise advice. Lucky number: 752.
fSCORPIO (Oct. 23 to Nov. 21): An intense drive softens this week. Lend yourself to a cause, but be careful of mak-
ing a long-term commitment if you’re not able to follow through. Consider setting plans in motion then take a back seat, and offer guidance. Lucky number: 578.
gSAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 to Dec. 21): Material benefits come your way through a friend of a friend or colleague.
Attempts to broaden your skills will have long-term advantage. Information from a trip you embark on at short notice will lead to a rare chance to earn extra money. Lucky number: 612.
hCAPRICORN (Dec. 22 to Jan. 19): Positive feedback from creative ideas fuels imagination. Take this opportu-
nity to write, learn an instrument or craft a beautiful design. A surprise from a loved one will sweep you off your feet. Lucky number: 367.
AAQUARIUS (Jan. 20 to Feb. 18): New business arrange-ments will come as a relief, as you’ve been disenchanted
with a leadership system for a while. Being asked to join an exclu-sive team will give you a greater measure of control, along with a feeling of support. Lucky number: 423. SPR
To inquire about a personal reading, call Mystic Terry at 215-467-5162. Comment at southphillyreview.com/arts-and-entertain-ment/horoscopes.
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omentum makes a mighty fine gift for delirious basketball fans, espe-cially ones who want an upset. Just as supporters of Archbishop Wood
High School sensed their Vikings could vault past Ss. Neumann-Goretti High School, 1736 S. 10th St., at The Palestra Monday night, Sianni Martin, determined to deny their wishes, converted what proved to be the game-deciding three-point play, guiding the Saints to a 50-45 win that secured their second-straight Catholic League championship.
“We’ve grown so much as a team and as a family,” the senior guard said of the na-tion’s top-ranked girls’ squad. “Give us a challenge, and we’re going to give you our best to push it aside. That’s what happened tonight.”
The All-Catholic selection saw her East Passyunk Crossing-based unit extend its record to 24-0 ahead of Saturday’s 2 p.m. City title tilt versus Imhotep Charter at South Philadelphia High School, 2101 S. Broad St. Accustomed to crushing clubs, the Saints registered their slimmest tri-umph of what has become a captivating campaign.
“This is a special group of young wom-en,” first-year coach Andrea Peterson said. “I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to see them mature and realize their dreams of being the best.”
Though an unblemished mark and mul-tiple college commitments have generated joy among the roster members, their sea-son has also featured controversy, as al-legations of recruiting and using ineligible players, claims that have become part of a libel-slander lawsuit by former coach and South Philly Review Difference Maker Letty Santarelli, have sought to cause distractions. The championship game, incidentally, paired the Saints against foes whose now ex-coach, John Gallagher, earlier this winter supposedly questioned the eligibility of senior forward Christina Aborowa, a University of Texas recruit.
“That didn’t matter,” Martin said of again facing the Warminster-based bunch whom she and her mates defeated in last year’s title contest and throttled 59-33 on the road Jan. 16. “We just had to do our jobs, and we did. That proves our maturity.”
A well-played opening quarter found the favorites crafting a 16-15 edge, with All-Catholic selection Ciani Cryor, a senior guard bound for Georgia Tech, depositing nine points. Having proven all season that they have multiple weapons capable of carrying out commendable executions of game plans, the Saints placed five play-ers in the second-quarter scoring column, highlighted by super substitute Kamiah Smalls’ two corner three-pointers. Wood standout Bailey Greenberg, on her way to a game-high 24 points, kept confounding the Saints’ defensive schemes, but her col-leagues would not complement her deeds, and they reached the break down 31-20.
“I told these ladies that they’ve been playing basketball for most of their lives,” Peterson said. “Because of that, no matter the situation, I wanted them to see this as another game and have fun. Just like they’ve done all year, they listened and are celebrating what can happen when every-one believes in each other.”
THE THIRD FRAME proved similar to the opening quarter, with Neumann-Goretti’s agility loving the opportunity to contend with Wood’s tenacity. Greenberg again showed what led to her All-Catholic des-
ignation in helping her team to ensure that onlookers would not witness a blowout. Devastating displays of talent have yielded many mismatches for the Saints, including Feb. 12’s 73-19 home playoff opener anni-hilation of St. Hubert’s as the most recent example. Heading for a 12-point night, the top effort from either bench, Smalls scored a bucket at the buzzer to give the Saints a 41-35 lead entering the fourth.
“We practice all sorts of scenarios, so we didn’t feel we needed to panic,” Pe-terson said of holding the two-score edge. “Again, it was all about having fun and knowing how to execute.”
The Saints struggled to distance them-selves from the opposition and with 4:50 remaining, Wood dwindled the deficit to a deuce. While she later claimed that defense won the game for the unconquered locals, Martin might need to concede that her offensive guile gifted her squad the vic-tory. Fancy dribbling and passing helped them to drain 83 seconds off the clock, with the Towson University signee ventur-ing to the rim for a much-praised basket. Draining the accompanying free throw, she sought to be a stopper and thwart any waning-seconds plans for overtime or even a monumental regulation celebration for
Wood. The Saints missed a one-and-one, giving the Vikings a chance when down 48-45, but excellent defense on a corner three-ball cemented the result, with Smalls ending the scoring as the clock expired.
“We’ve become a whole team,” senior guard A.J. Timbers, another All-Catholic, who will join Martin at Towson, said. “We weren’t scared when they came back because we knew we had to execute and stay together. Going forward, we’ll have to repeat that because we have bigger things to accomplish.”
Along with looking to defend their City championship, Timbers, who tallied four points, and her peers will try to triumph in the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Ath-letic Association tournament (the official brackets are scheduled to be released this weekend), having fallen in last year’s final, their only blemish on their way to a 29-1 slate.
“We definitely have unfinished business,” Martin said in recalling the setback. “This is my family and we’re in this together. That’s what I’ve loved most about being a Saint, realizing that we’re one.” SPR
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ne could devote days to pondering “could have” scenarios from Mon-day’s Catholic League boys’ bas-ketball championship game at The
Palestra, which Roman Catholic High School, won, 64-59, over Ss. Neumann-Goretti High School, 1736 S. 10th St. The local club could have claimed its seventh-straight league plaque, which would have been an unprecedented feat, and coach Carl Arrigale could have earned not only his 11th title, which would have set a re-cord, but also his 400th victory. Instead of hanging on to hypotheticals, though, sup-porters would be better off focusing on the fight the Saints showed in the loss and the diligence they and their predecessors have always practiced.
“It couldn’t go on forever,” Arrigale, of the 2900 block of South 15th Street, said of the East Passyunk Crossing-based in-stitution’s parting with the title. “The kids feel let down, but it’s definitely not the end of the world, and there’s still so much to play for.”
He and his charges will venture to Saint Joseph’s University for tomorrow’s 7 p.m. Class AAA City title matchup against Imhotep Charter, with the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association tour-nament, which the Saints have won four of the last five years, commencing next week. With a proven pedigree, they will enter with immense pride and the belief, although they have not needed to call on it often, that a difficult loss can toughen one’s approach.
“With the team we have, we can re-bound,” senior guard Lamarr Kimble said. “We’re still hungry.”
Having dropped their regular season en-counter with the Cahillites, a 71-68 defeat absorbed Jan. 7, the All-Catholic selec-tion and his teammates looked to repeat last year’s accomplishment of exacting a league loss with a playoff triumph. The University of Pennsylvania-situated venue buzzed with excitement, with Neumann-Goretti backers especially zealous after having watched the girls’ club score a 50-45 win over Archbishop Wood for its second-straight parochial crown. The Saints started off up 4-0, but after going
down 5-4, they would find themselves battling for any edge, as Roman’s roster members offered not a trace of apprehen-sion in seeking their program’s first title since 2007.
A very evenly played first session put Roman up 15-13, with the Saints receiving seven points from star sophomore guard Quade Green, another All-Catholic des-ignee. Yet another all-league pick, sopho-more center Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree, however, picked up two fouls, and Roman looked to capitalize by using the 6-foot-8 figure’s woes to attack the interior.
The Center City-based ballers regularly penetrated Neumann-Goretti’s defense and even when great looks would not fall, they snared rebounds exceptionally well,
eventually ending up with a 43-29 edge on the glass. Green duplicated his first-quarter output, but Kimble could not mus-ter anything, going scoreless in the half. Roman continued to power past defenders to register a 38-23 lead at the break. Any-one familiar with Neumann-Goretti and its success under Arrigale, though, knew the Saints would not fold and would forge some sort of furious comeback attempt.
“That’s who we are,” Kimble said of believing the Saints would rally from the 15-point deficit. “We’re built to endure pressure.”
GREEN, ALREADY THE recipient of intense interest from colleges, continued to have a hot hand after intermission, and the Saints
seemed rejuvenated, especially Kimble, who tallied six points in the session. Well known as an excellent deep-ball shooting squad, the Saints received three point-ers from Green and junior guard Rasheed Browne, who nailed two triples. With Cosby-Roundtree more confident in his defense, too, Roman seemed rattled, and the crowd sensed a thrilling finish could combat the thought of venturing home in freezing temperatures.
“I think we got them back on their heels a bit in the third,” Arrigale said of the momentum-shifting frame in which his athletes scored as many points as they had done in the entire first half to trail only 50-46. “They hit us with their physicality early on, and we wanted to get points back and go for the win.”
The teams traded buckets, with Roman going up 58-52 before Kimble showed what has made him a dynamic leader, nail-ing a three and depositing a deuce to make it a one-point affair. The rest of the game, however, would not prove as fortunate for the perennial powerhouse. Green recorded a steal but traveled, Kimble and junior guard Zane Martin, another All-Catholic, missed front ends of one-and-one situa-tions and junior guard Vaughn Covington stepped on the baseline after forcing a turnover. After scoring to make it a 63-59 game, Green could not convert a three-point play, and Roman tacked on a foul shot to cap the scoring.
“We have to keep a positive mindset for our next game,” Kimble, who after emerg-ing from the locker room accepted a hug from Saint Joseph’s University coach Phil Martelli, under whom he will play next season, said. “We’ll keep working. That’s our mentality.”
As families waited for their sons and brothers to emerge, the waiting area had a funeral-like feel, but that soon vanished once the players shared smiles with their kin.
“I love working with these guys,” Ar-rigale said. “That’s who I’m in this for. It’s great to win titles, but I hope I’m making an impact on the kids so that they believe in themselves no matter what. That’s a bet-ter reward.” SPR
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Ss. Neumann-Goretti hoopsters Ciani Cryor, Sianni Martin and A.J. Timbers earned First-Team All-Catholic honors. Christina Aborowa and Alisha Kebbe ap-peared on the Second-Team, and Felicia Aiyeotan garnered a Third-Team nod.
South Philly resident and King guard Jabri McCall received First-Team All-Public kudos in Division A. In Division B, Southern’s Kahssian Kay and La’Trelle Wilson won Third-Team designation, with teammate Marvin Bell winning Honorable Mention. Prep Charter’s Ra-him Washington and Audenried’s Devon Jacobs claimed First-Team Division C ac-colades, with Audenried’s Niseem Wright earning Honorable Mention. Palumbo’s Shafi Meachum scored Second-Team Di-vision C plaudits. In Division E, GAMP’s Deverris Stuckey appeared on the Third-Team roster, with CAPA’s Marcus Bryant notching Honorable Mention.
In action that ended after press time, the boys’ basketball team from Auden-ried headed to Archbishop Ryan to face Archbishop Carroll to determine AAA seeding in the Pennsylvania Interscho-lastic Athletic Association tournament. The Rockets advanced by having beaten Del-Val 67-64 in a qualifying game. Their female counterparts will play Bonner-Prendergast 6 tonight at Southern in a AAA playoff qualifier.
The Edward O’Malley Athletic As-sociation, 144 Moore St., is accepting basketball registrations for ages 3 to 7. Games are at 9:30, 10:15 and 11 a.m. on Saturdays. Cost is $30. Contact Coach John, 215-266-4195.
The Edward O’Malley Athletic Associa-tion, 144 Moore St., will hold signups for girls’ fast-pitch softball from 7 to 8:30 p.m. March 3 and 5. Ages are 6 to 8 for the Instructional League for a $30 fee and 9 to 10 and 11 to 13 for the in-house leagues for $35. Contact Bob Thiel, 215-952-3121.
The Southeast Youth Athletic As-sociation is accepting registrations for its spring T-ball and baseball programs. Divisions are ages 4 to 6 for T-ball, 7 to 8 for pitching machine, 8 to 10 and 10 to 12 for live pitch, 13 to 15 and 16 to 19 for Babe Ruth Baseball. The association is also accepting registrations for its girls’
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Shot Tower Playground, 131 Carpenter St., is taking registrations for its coed 10-and-younger basketball program, with sign-ups and action occurring on Wednes-days. Cost is $25. Call Mike Townsend, 215-685-1592, or 267-679-5861.
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The South Philadelphia Tennis Asso-ciation is holding its winter indoor 12 and younger season at the Hawthorne Cultural Center, 12th and Carpenter streets, from 5 to 6 p.m. through March 27. The associa-tion will also offer Saturday team tennis play from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. from March 7 to 28. The program fee is $50, $35 for siblings. An indoor play day will occur from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. March 14 at Capitolo Playground, 900 Federal St. Cost is $10. Contact Bryan Hughes, 215-528-0196, or [email protected].
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