This week's cover story is my long-in-gestation piece about the South Philly indie pro wrestling scene. Spent a lot of time over the past few months at the old ECW Arena, and will be back a few times in the coming weeks, especially for the crowning of the first Dragon Gate USA champion!
Also in this busy week's paper, a feature review of Lee Daniel's histrionic and histrionically-named Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (despite what the cover would have you believe, however, I wouldn't say it "lives up to the hype" - I actively disliked much if not most of it, but ended up giving it a B+ because it does live up to what it sets out to do. This is why letter-grading is reductive and silly, folks); a short review of the would-be art-world satire (Untitled); a music pick for Peter Apfelbaum's New York Hieroglyphics at the Painted Bride; and Soundadvice blurbs for Chris' Israeli Jazz Festival and for sax minimalist John Butcher at the Powel House.
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