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West Oak Lane festival showcases stellar jazz music-makers who do the city proud.

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On Movies Online: Joan Rivers on Gays, On Outsiders, On Keeping Her "Edge"

'Jonah Hex' has lots of action, not much interest - 06/17/2010: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

You know things are bad when the president of the United States warns that "the very future of our nation" rests on the shoulders of a soul-ravaged bounty hunter with a hole in the side of his face.
'Winter's Bone' is chilling, potent - 06/17/2010: By Steven Rea, Inquirer Movie Critic

Digging deep into the muck of a menacing world, Ree Dolly, the 17-year-old girl at the heart of the spare, powerful Winter's Bone, becomes a sort of accidental detective - investigating a disappearance, going up against dope fiends and the law, standing tall in the face of threats. If she isn't fearless, exactly, she's unafraid to be afraid.
Joan Rivers, comic without pause - 06/17/2010: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

If the Joan Rivers of 1980 could look at herself in 2010, she might describe Rivers 8.0 as a dirty-mouthed septuagenarian who resembles a female impersonator "doing" Joan Rivers.
Repertory Films showing this week - 06/18/2010: Repertory Films African American Museum 701 Arch St.; 215-574-0380. www.aampmuseum.org. King of Oak Street (2007) 6/19. 2-4 pm.
'Air Doll': Japanese film breathes life into sex toy - 06/17/2010: By Tirdad Derakhshani, Inquirer Staff Writer

Air Doll, the latest art film from Japan, is about a sex doll that comes to life and explores Tokyo dressed in a coy little French maid's outfit.
'Micmacs' abounds in chaos - 06/17/2010: By Carrie Rickey, Inquirer Movie Critic

Micmacs, a French nonsense word that roughly translates as "shenanigans," is the apt title of the latest movie mischief from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, director and cowriter of Amélie. The new movie is a disarming tale of misfits who conspire to demobilize an arms manufacturer.
New This Week - 06/18/2010: The Book of Eli *** (Warner Home Video, '10) $28.98. 118 mins. In post-apocalyptic America, the fate of civilization depends on one man guarding a sacred book. With Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson. R (some brutal violence and profanity)
Do This! - 06/18/2010: By Aubrey Whelan

Saturday Celebrating freedom To celebrate Juneteenth, the anniversary of the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, Iron Age Theatre and the NAACP Youth Council of Norristown will host free, interactive tours of black historical sites fr
A vintage Collins to play the Factory - 06/18/2010: He's honoring the R&B; and soul that shaped him.

By Patrick Berkery, For The Inquirer

If you prefer Phil Collins' detours into R&B; ("I Missed Again," "You Can't Hurry Love," "Easy Lover") over the arena-size art rock of Genesis or the slick pop he's crafted as a solo artist, his new album and shows should appeal to you.
Concert Previews - 06/18/2010: The New Pornographers More is more: That's the implicit credo of the New Pornographers. Masterminded by Carl Newman, the Pornographers are an army eight strong, most of whom have active careers of their own. Those careers sometimes conflict with tours, bu
Concert and club listings - 06/18/2010: In Concert Bryn Mawr Gazebo 9 S. Bryn Mawr Ave., Bryn Mawr; 610-864-4303. www.brynmawrtwilightconcerts.com. Tom Chapin. $10; free 16 & under. 6/19. 7 pm.
Maxwell, Scott making beautiful music together - 06/18/2010: By David R. Stampone, For The Inquirer

'Yeah, it'll be a home court advantage for Jill," noted Maxwell, a native New Yorker, about his coheadlining bill with Philadelphia's Jill Scott on Saturday at the Wachovia Center.