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Saxophonist Chris Oatts continues his family’s big band biz

Hillary Petrozziello OATTS AT THE HALL: Saxophonist Chris Oatts poses in front of the Merriam Theater in Center City before rehearsal on Sept. 20. He comes from a long line of jazz musicians. Leading a big band may seem like…

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  • Review: ‘Sleeping with Other People’

    Sleeping with Other People Playwright-turned-filmmaker Leslye Headland is either working toward a more honest, subversive approach to romantic comedy or backing away from her edgier instincts toward more conventional ideas. She started out adapting her own play with Bachelorette, a…

    • Sep 23, 2015 - 7:38 am
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  • Review: ‘The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution’

    So many of the subjects broached in Vanguard of the Revolution echo the headlines and news reports from our current racially tense moment: police brutality against Black men and women; activists and pundits shouting each other down from entrenched positions;…

    • Sep 17, 2015 - 12:30 pm
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  • Review: ‘The New Girlfriend’

    Prolific French director François Ozon casts a Hitchcockian sense of unease over his loose adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s short story, but the suspense lies not in a question of life or death but of male or female. Following the premature…

    • Sep 17, 2015 - 9:00 am
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    Fall Guide: What’s coming up in Jazz

    Cécile McLorin Salvant Tracy Love Terri Lyne Carrington Orrin Evans The Philly pianist celebrates his deeply personal new CD, The Evolution of Oneself (Smoke Sessions), with a stellar band featuring trumpeter Sean Jones, bassist Luques Curtis and drummer Mark Whitfield…

    • Sep 17, 2015 - 6:03 am
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    Sonic Liberation 8 taps a supernatural source for its latest numbers

    BY THE NUMBERS: Sonic Liberation 8 is joining other local arts orgs for an evening of sonic and visual dream interpretation, inspired by “dream books.” Long before the States got into the lottery racket, illegal numbers games flourished in poor…

    • Sep 10, 2015 - 5:37 am
    • Music
  • Review: ‘Slow Learners’

    Slow Learners You can’t write the kinds of twists that have impacted the doc­umentaries of Phil­a­del­phia film­makers Don Ar­gott and Sheena Joyce. As they were re­searching the history of nuclear power for The Atomic States of America, dis­aster struck Japan’s…

    • Aug 26, 2015 - 7:39 am
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  • REVIEW: Don’t expect soul-searching in Woody Allen’s Irrational Man

    MAY-SEPTEMBER ROMANCE: Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix in Woody Allen’s 46th feature film. City Paper grade: D Eyebrows raised with the news that Woody Allen’s 46th feature involved a college professor becoming entangled with a student. This is nothing new…

    • Jul 30, 2015 - 1:07 pm
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  • REVIEW: Marvel struggles with small stakes in ‘Ant-Man’

    City Paper grade: C Marvel isn’t exactly known for thinking small. Its movies boast their own universe, after all, and it’s beginning to seem like the combined running times of their non-stop output will soon rival the age of the…

    • Jul 16, 2015 - 5:19 am
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  • REVIEW: ‘Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor’

    City Paper grade: C+ A practicing physician before he turned to filmmaking, French director Thomas Lilti brings an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of a beleaguered hospital to Hippocrates: Diary of a French Doctor. The film follows Benjamin (Vincent…

    • Jul 16, 2015 - 5:01 am
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