Mark Stehle When I met with drummer and percussionist François Zayas a couple of weeks ago at a coffee shop near his South Philly apartment, he was in between trips to New York to play with saxophonist Steve Coleman at…

Natalie Cressman Kurt Elling Arturo Sandoval Quintet Eldar Virtuosic pianist Eldar Djangirov will spend a weekend celebrating Chris’ Jazz Café’s anniversary, leading his electrifying trio. Sept. 26-27, Chris’ Jazz Café, 1421 Sansom St., chrisjazzcafe.com.   REBELLUM Former Village Voice writer…

Mark Stehle BEAT MASTER: Chris Bartlett, executive director of William Way and one of the organizers of OutBeat. There’s a long and storied history of gay and lesbian jazz musicians, from Duke Ellington’s composer/arranger/right-hand man Billy Strayhorn, to avant-garde innovator…

SALAD DAYS: Mason (Ellar Coltrane) grows from a chubby-faced boy into an 18-year-old on the cusp of adulthood over the course of 12 years. City Paper grade: A With the Before Sunrise trilogy, Richard Linklater proved himself to be an…

Maria Pouchnikova COMING ATTRACTIONS: (L-R) Harry Guerro, Jesse Nelson and Dan Fraga review some of the rare movies that will be shown at Sunday’s Forgotten Film Fest in Guerro’s private screening room. The fact that Harry Guerro is a collector…

COFFEE AND CIGARETTES: Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling) has a long, bad day in Jan Ole Gerster’s debut film. City Paper grade: B A combination of bad luck, bad choices and bad karma add up to one long, bad day for…

Photo courtesy of King Britt SPACE CADET: King Britt’s mom was friends with Sun Ra. One hundred years ago (give or take a couple of weeks), one of two events took place, depending on which version of the cosmic reality…

City Paper grade: B Who would have ever thought that decamping to an isolated island paradise armed only with Nietzschean philosophy might end badly? The Galapagos Affair recounts a lurid tale of social Darwinism that unfolded in the birthplace of…

City Paper grade: C+ Woody Allen very rarely accepts roles in films that he hasn’t had a hand in writing or directing, and when he does they tend to be atypical parts with scripts of questionable attraction. (The last time…