Maria Pouchnikova George Anastasia at the Marlton Diner Here is an excerpt from Chapter 14 of Gotti’s Rules. In the mid-1990s, John Alite also set up shop in the Philadelphia–South Jersey area, where he already had two homes. His common-law…

A protester holds aloft a sign at the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King spoke of his dreams for a nation that had broken the bonds of race.      Yesterday’s constant and cold…

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Courtesy of Penn Museum During its first seasons in residence at the Penn Museum, Philadelphia’s nine-member, more than 30-year-old music ensemble Relâche composed and performed original music for silent films such as Alfred Hitchcock’s Lodger and Buster Keaton’s The General,…

Fans of morning drinking and Scottish indie pop, get excited. This Sunday, January 18th Bardot from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.(447 Poplar St.) is hosting a Belle and Sebastian brunch in honor of the band’s newly released album, Girls in Peacetime…

City Paper grade: B- While the profile of Selma has been boosted by the “divine timing” of its release (Oprah’s words), a much smaller movie has also found its vein along the sociopolitical zeitgeist. It won’t win any awards, inspire…

    The long-awaited announcement arrived this afternoon on a Twitter feed.     Council President Darrell Clarke announced he would seek another term on City Council, effectively telling the city’s political class and candidates waiting in the wings that he would not…

City Paper grade: B+ The first-ever theatrical feature about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is not a birth-to-death biopic, but a dissection of a meticulous feat that’s never quite earned the historical enshrinement it deserves. In exploring the marches in…

Goltzius and the Pelican Company FREE LIBRARY, FOX CHASE BRANCH501 Rhawn St., 215-685-0547, freelibrary.org Million Dollar Arm (2014, U.S., 124 min.): Mad Men’s Jon Hamm stars as a flailing sports agent who scours India for cricketers he can convert into…