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Publication: PHILADELPHIA wEEkLy

A guide to this season’s best theater, music, art, dance and comedy. Philly F/M Festival Page 43

PhillyNOW 8 Hip-Hop Hooray A new political party Insertion date: SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

aims to rap up City Council.

10 Necessary Evil Eastern State reflects on 20 years of its revamped “Terror Behind the Walls.”

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Sharkey Attack Regarding John Sharkey III’s sports column, “The Big Sharkey Show”: Good article! I wish the announcers would stop bringing it up. Al Michaels needs to have his hair ripped out like it was Howard Cossell’s toupee. About 10 years ago, we ordered an Eagles jersey for my dog out of a catalog. They sent it with the No. 7. Who knew that this would be Vick’s number ? My dog forgives him and wears the No. 7 with pride. JIM KLOTZ, via email I find it utterly disgusting and worse, ignorant of the author to claim in any way that Vick should be absolved for his inhumane crimes because he killed “vicious and useless attack dogs.” The history of the pit bull breed involves much more than dog fighting; cattle herding, hunting and companionship are just some of the functions this versatile animal has been bred for. A little research reveals that among the dogs rescued from Vick’s property, over half have been adopted into homes where they lead normal, loving dog lives—one of them even works as a therapy dog. Say what you will about Vick, Sharkey undermines our integrity as humane, intelligent and law-abiding Philadelphians by forgiving and condoning a tragically inhuman, rightly illegal act. RACHEL SCIABARRASI, via email Great, great, great article. You said exactly what I and thousands others have been feeling. Those freakin’ animal rights people should all be committed, they let their families starve while they protest outside the circus, what a bunch of fucking morons! MARY DONAHOE, via email Yes, they were animals that were raised to fight and die. You left out one integral part of the puzzle: The owners of those dogs and payers to watch these fights are the people that caused these animals to be this way. Did Michael Vick own some of these “vicious and useless attack dogs?” Why yes, he did. He also trained them to be what they were. Dogs of the same breed raised by people that do not put them in disgusting dog fights that result in one dog living and one dog dying for the sheer enjoyment, recreation and monetary gain do not have dogs with these social problems that make them useless, Mr. Sharkey. The next time you are so quick to say your opinion and consider animals useless and not worth a thought or care, remember who raised them and that your opinion is your opinion. However, dog abuse is obviously punishable, and it looks like you should not have an animal of your own, either. Dogs (and other companions, as I clear my throat) are only for people with compassion. You are lacking in that area, and I feel certain you lack in plenty of others after reading this article. JENNIFER, via email Dudes article was fucking great. You guys need more sports coverage, after all we do live in fucking Philadelphia. Give the man a full page. JOSEPH B. O’HAIRE, via email Is Sharkey serious here? He says “I’m not saying that inflicting suffering onto any living creature is justifiable or can be condoned in anyway,” right after he says that it was basically alright because it wasn’t “Lassie.” What a fucking asshole this guy is. I hope a pit bull bites his fingers off so he can’t write any more of this nonsense. MARK WEST, via email

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jobs, schools closing, all these things people out here care about. Those are the things we plan to work on.” “Out here” includes the North Philly neighborhood that surrounds Gilbert’s Shoes— the old shoe store-turned-counterculture residence and community center on Ridge Avenue that also serves as HHPP HQ. Caesar, HHPP’s national coordinator, is kicking back in a chair next to a row of refurbished computers for local kids to use; the unfinished space also houses a piano, drum kit and mics for live rap shows. Caesar’s roots in Philly arts and activism run deep: A dancer and filmmaker, she co-directed the 2010 short documentary

“Most people are sick of the way things are going with ... City Council and the mayor.”

“In it to win it”: Pili X (left) and Leah “Keturah” Caesar are members of Hip-Hop Party for the People. Pili is running for an at-large City Council seat.

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As they say, there ain’t no party like a hiphop party ’cause a hip-hop party don’t stop. And with the November elections looming, Philadelphia’s newly formed Hip-Hop Party for the People and its City Council candidate, 26-year-old Pili X—a local rapper who goes by the name KASH Kuumba—are going all-out with a spirited, if seemingly quixotic, independent write-in bid for an at-large Council seat. It’s a grassroots campaign that hopes to ride the unifying power of hiphop, as well as the increasing despair over joblessness, education woes and violence in some of Philly’s most disadvantaged hoods, to a spot at the Council table. “I’m in it to win it, not just for show,” says Pili. “I’m not gonna lie—we don’t have the financial backing that the Democrats or Republicans have, but we can win. We represent what the people are feelin’. We just have to hit the streets hard.” Established in January, Hip-Hop Party for the People was borne out of the Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation—Leah “Keturah” Caesar and Tommy Joshua, both members of that long-running local activist group, led a protest against the controversial police beating of Askia Sabur last September that sparked national outrage when video of the incident hit YouTube. Sabur was standing outside a Chinese restaurant at 55th Street and Lansdowne

Avenue in West Philadelphia waiting for his food when cops from the 19th District demanded he and others clear the sidewalk. Police maintain that only after Sabur became confrontational, knocking an officer to the ground and reaching for his gun, did they wrestle him to the ground and strike him with batons for several minutes. The widely circulated video shows only the beating. Sabur disputed the police account, claiming he did nothing to deserve the broken arm, head and spinal injuries, and aggravated assault charge he received (his trial is in January). The day after the incident, the Poor Righteous Party held a “People’s Court” at the site of the beating, where community members “indicted” the PPD. Two weeks later, they compelled 500 people to march to the 19th District police headquarters to demand justice. “We initiated a whole uprising in West Philly,” Caesar says proudly. But when nothing came of it, Caesar, 28, decided to channel her frustrations into local politics by co-founding the HHPP with an eye toward a Council run. “City Council, they’re focusing on DROP [Deferred Retirement Option Program] and they’re not talking about police misconduct,” she says. “They’re not talking about violence in the community, HIV, inner-city pregnancy, no

The Big Pay Back—a look at Philly’s female hip-hop artists—and has been working on a feature-length film about the city’s hiphop dance history titled Philly Raw Talent since 2009. Prior to that, she taught black history and civics to students at Philadelphia Freedom Schools. Invoking hip-hop for her nascent political party was a nod to the dominant language and lifestyle of the streets, and a way to bridge cultures in a manner that a group called Poor Righteous Party of the Black Nation might have more difficulty doing. “Hip-hop is the only culture that has brought everyone together,” says Caesar. “You can incorporate funk or blues or jazz and it’s still hip-hop, so in the same way we can bring people from different backgrounds and races together for social change.” Not long after announcing in January that she was running for City Council, Caesar backed out, deciding that her talents were better served in a behind-the-scenes organizational role. So the HHPP drafted Pili X to run in her place. Like Caesar, Pili’s been involved in music and activism since his teens, mentoring peers at Overbrook High and working since 2007 with the local organization Beats, Rhymes and Life, which steers at-risk kids toward recording and audio production, along the way helping them develop skills to graduate high school and apply to college. Inspired by the hard-hitting, radical polemic of Brooklyn hip-hop duo Dead Prez—and by his father and uncles, who were affiliated with the Black Panthers and helped shape his own worldview—Pili began rapping under the moniker KASH Kuumba in 2004. There’s a recent video on YouTube in which he’s freestyling on a Philly train

platform: “My political views are those of a communist/Hip-hop socialist/I’m the Maoist Chris Brown/Got a model chick she an anarchist so I keep her around,” he rhymes. Making no apologies for his ideology, Pili insists voters—especially in the North, West and Southwest Philly neighborhoods he’s particularly courting—are looking for a new way forward. “Most people are sick of the way things are going in Philadelphia, they’re sick of the things that are going on with City Council and the mayor,” he says. Among Pili’s priorities, should he win office: Creating “better relationships” with companies and factories to get them to come to Philadelphia and create jobs. Implementing a “zero tolerance” policy for police misconduct. Instituting a “neighborhood beautification” program that would transform the city’s vacant lots and properties into low-cost housing, marketplaces, parks and recreation centers. And establishing community control over schools, health-care clinics, food co-ops, child-care centers, and businesses so that neighborhoods become less reliant on city services and schools with “curriculum decided by outsiders.” How he’d fund such initiatives, or convince fellow Council members to go along with his ideas, Pili’s not quite sure. “Issues will come up where I’ll have to compromise and go halfway, and that might not be what I promised but that halfway would be better than giving the people nothing,” he says. “I’m confident that I can do the job. I’m studying policy every day.” Pili and his HHPP comrades are indeed trying to hit the streets hard—knocking on doors, handing out fliers, sponsoring more “People’s Courts,” putting on hip-hop shows, and participating in events like the recent anti-curfew march on South Street to get the word out. Both Pili and Caesar say that despite basic ideological differences, they’ve been inspired by the Tea Party’s ability to mobilize disenchanted voters and get their candidates into office; Pili even counts Philly conservative Robert Allen Mansfield—a Republican candidate for governor and one of the most prominent black Tea Party activist in the nation—as one of his political advisors. “He’s taken me under his wing, helping me learn about how city government works,” says Pili. “Pili and I don’t have to agree on every issue, but I think Philadelphia would be well-served by young people with independent voices like his in City Council,” says Mansfield. “The ruling elites in this city don’t want new faces, because if Pili X wins, they lose.” Clearly, the write-in campaign is a longshot, but, says Caesar, “There have been so many budget cuts and people getting laid off and people feeling like they’re being brutalized … you know how you go through tragedies as a society and it just wakes everybody up? I feel like that’s what’s happening this year. We’re out there talking to the people, and they’re ready for us.” n

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If these walls could talk: Eastern State Penitentiary closed in 1970, but has been operating as a historical site and Halloween attraction since the 1990s.

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Organizers reflect on Eastern State’s controversial “Terror Behind the Walls.” By Michael Alan Goldberg

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Directly above Sean Kelley’s desk in the old parole office of Eastern State Penitentiary, a man killed himself in especially bloody fashion. It was 1969, a year before the infamous, fortress-like prison on Fairmount Avenue closed after a century and a half. The man’s name was Norman Maisenhelder. Imprisoned following a 1954 murder conviction, Maisenhelder—desperate to see his young daughter and distraught over being denied parole—climbed onto the low roof of the building that now houses Kelley’s cubicle, screaming and brandishing a blade. After a two-hour standoff during which prison staff and fellow inmates tried to talk him down, Maisenhelder stabbed himself to death in front of the horrified onlookers. It’s something that Kelley, Eastern State’s longtime senior vice president and director of public programming, thinks about often, but especially at this time of year. This week, Eastern State kicks off the 20th anniversary iteration of its “Terror Behind the Walls” Halloween attraction at the prison,

which reopened as a museum and historical site in the early ’90s. Eastern State’s atmospheric innards— long, dimly lit, decaying cell blocks that are creepy and compelling to walk down even during a daytime tour—have helped “Terror” evolve into one of the most popular and highly rated haunted attractions in the country. It’s also a crucial cash cow for the nonprofit. Last year, “Terror” generated 65 percent of its approximately $4 million annual operating budget—the rest comes from grants and donations. The money goes to preserving and maintaining the prison as a historical site—recent roof repairs and upgraded safety systems cost Eastern State nearly $1 million, for example. But Kelley, who’s overseen “Terror” for the past 16 years, considers the event a dance with the devil; an unavoidable exploitation of the prison’s complicated past—which includes brutality, suffering and misguided rehabilitation strategies— in order to keep the prison’s doors open year-round.

“There’s no way in which you can tell this building’s story at night as [haunted] entertainment and not really do some harm to peoples’ understanding of what went on here, or in some way dishonor the memory of someone like Norman Maisenhelder, who was a prisoner here but he was still a human being,” says Kelley. While he acknowledges Eastern State’s ethical compromise, Kelley insists he has strived to minimize the harm over the years. Early on, he recalls, there were mistakes. In the mid-’90s, “Terror”—which brought in new consultants to conceptualize the haunt—started transforming from the creepy candlelight tours of the first few years to something far more outrageous and sensationalized, with its actors recreating scenes specific to the prison’s history: Women crying because they’d been raped. Prisoners going crazy and climbing the walls due to the unyielding solitary confinement that the prison’s Quaker founders believed would cause inmates to reflect and repent their misdeeds. And a man standing on the roof stabbing himself, fake blood spurting all over the place. “I hated it, and I wasn’t the only one,” says Kelley, remembering some of the angry letters and protests from prisoners rights activists. “And it wasn’t even successful financially.” So Eastern State did away with that and tried to remove the prison theme entirely, and that, too, was a disaster. “We had, like, scenes of clowns, and there was such a disconnect. You’re in

this abandoned prison in the clown room and it just wasn’t working.” So Kelley has since re-instituted a prison theme, but with plenty of caveats. No scenes of prison violence or sexual assault, no references to Quaker reform or the prison’s most famous inmate, gangster Al Capone. No references whatsoever to Eastern State Penitentiary as a real place. No overly monstrous prisoners or guards. “It’s not a great idea to flood the world with very cliche images of universally evil human beings locked in cages,” says Kelley. “That’s not what prisons or prisoners are. It’s much more complicated than that.” The changes seem to have worked. “Terror” is financially successful. It’s become a Philadelphia Halloween tradition. Most of the overt protests have faded away. And Kelley feels more comfortable, though not entirely guilt-free, about the haunt. But rather than pretend the “Terror” debate no longer exists, Kelley and Eastern State have embraced and even fostered it. On a recent evening, about 100 people gathered inside the old surveillance hub at the center of the prison for a talk about the ethical implications of “Terror.” Kelley spoke to the crowd about his lingering unease. Anne Parsons—a doctoral candidate from the University of Illinois who was in the area all summer to research the repurposement of formerly abandoned state-run facilities like Eastern State and the Pennhurst State School in Spring City >> continued on page 12

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as haunted attractions—challenged the crowd to consider whether haunted attractions like “Terror” stigmatize people who are incarcerated. “One thing I’ve found [in my research] is that there has been less explicit controversy over haunted attractions at prisons than at asylums,” Parsons said afterward, noting the uproar over last year’s inaugural haunted house at Pennhurst, which some mental health advocates claim demonized and reinforced long-standing fears of the intellectually disabled. “People have said, ‘Well, prisoners have broken the law and so prisons as frightening places is appropriate, whereas people at mental health institutions were there for treatment and those places should be remembered differently and with more respect.’” Voices of concern may be muted, but they’re still out there. Tim Dunn, a 20-year volunteer with West Philly nonprofit Books Through Bars—which sends reading materials to inmates and fosters dialogue about incarceration issues—says he’s been critical of “Terror” for years and thinks they need to devise new moneymaking ideas to avoid the ethical conundrum altogether. “I’ve often been troubled by how and why Eastern State continues to use it as their main fundraiser,” says Dunn. They could be doing so many more creative things with this site.” Meanwhile, Paul Eisenhauer—a prison historian, former professor of sociology at Chestnut Hill College, and prisonersrights advocate since the early ’70s—was a volunteer at Eastern State for much of the 1990s, and occasionally butted heads with Kelley over the more outrageous “Terror” content. And while he has fewer misgivings these days and accepts the haunted attraction as a necessary evil, he’s still wary of the harm it can cause. “A place like Eastern needs to be very, very careful how they depict the prison experience because you’re working with a population that is prejudiced, that doesn’t really think through what prison is about and doesn’t recognize the humanity of prisoners,” he says. “That kind of thinking allows all kinds of horrible things to be done [to prisoners] to this day,” Eisenhauer continues. “Eastern needs to make sure they’re not contributing to that knee-jerk reaction. They don’t have to be advocates for prisoners if they don’t want to be, but they should not be contributing to falsehoods and stereotypes and bigotry.” Kelley says he reminds himself of that all the time. And others remind him of it, too. “I’ve met Norman Maisenhelder’s daughter. I met an inmate who was friends with him and watched him die. We owe it to them and all the people who lived and died here to do this thing responsibly.” n

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I’m standing outside the Green Rock Tavern waiting for Limecell to bash heads in on a Saturday night and the Phillies are up 9-2 on the woefully mediocre Cardinals. As I wait for the scum to flow, a few buddies and I are peering through the sweaty bar window as Ryan Madson is one out from clinching the Phillies’ fifth consecutive National League East Division Championship. The mood is jovial and hardly tense— most who care have been through this before. As the final pitch of the game bounces toward Utley for a bare-handed graband-gun to first for the third out, we all give each other high-fives and cheer and chug in celebration of another year, another flag and another chance to beat the crap out of the American League in the Fall Classic. It’s a great time for all but after about 10 minutes we go back to waiting for the band to play. Why aren’t we burning down a church or beating a random elderly person to death? Are we going soft? This atmosphere is becoming all too

familiar in Philadelphia and the question has been posed whether or not the good people of this city are becoming spoiled, complacent and mollified since the Phillies have become the Poseidon of the Major League waters. I’d like to field this one. I’ll be honest with you, Followers, even I, an extremely fervent fan, have been almost bored with the last month of baseball. They’ve been killing teams and practically have had their post-season ticket punched since July, now you want me to care about a series against the Nationals in late September? You know the old adage “show me a hot chick and I’ll show you a dude tired of banging her,” right? That’s as accurate a metaphor as I can muster. Yes, I know that’s an incredibly entitled and trite thing to say in the face of a city that housed the losin’-est gaggle of batsmen the last century had seen. Don’t think I’m taking this success for granted, even as a 30-year-old man I’ve lived through some of the worst times the Phillies have seen. My first game was in ’86 at 4 years old so all I’ve really had to brag about up until ’07 was a fucking National League title in 1993 that resulted in a loss to the corny Toronto Blue Jays, a team 40 fans better than the Florida Marlins. I’m just not trying to bullshit you. I love that our Phils have thoroughly crushed the dreams of many, but it’s now time to make another baby with that hot chick. But even with that kind of confident shithead attitude, I can’t let myself get too comfortable. I know that this Phillies season has been magical, with all the godlike pitching, almost-consistent offense and an all-time low in South Philly spousal abuse, but I feel slightly ill as the post-season approaches. No, not the “ill” on those fucking corny boardwalk shirts you see every fake-fan asshole clogging Ashburn Alley wearing, I’m talking real Philadelphian sports animal nausea. It’s not long ago that the Phils were a laughing stock of a franchise. It took them 97 years as a team to win their first championship and they were the first team to reach 10,000 losses in baseball history. Even during our recent success

we’ve still had shit to hurt over. Remember the feeling you got last year as those flukey, bearded jerk-offs bulldozed through our boys to a title win? Remember the year before when the Yankees used us as cock-socks in the Series? Remember BEFORE FUCKING 2007?! It’s shit times like those that keep the vomit just at the tip of our esophagus, that keeps Citizens Bank Park full every god damn night and keeps the Irish Yetis of Fishtown cloaked in Lee and Halladay and Howard and Rollins jerseys every day of the week. It’s the scars of past failures and depression that keep the Phillies faithful hungry for victory and not a horde of smug ballbags waiting for their lattes to arrive after Tweeting their order from the Diamond Club. It’s crystal fucking clear that the past five years have not calcified this fan base’s boiling blood and its voracious appetite for more rings, shirts, parades,

It’s crystal fucking clear that the past five years have not calcified this fan base’s boiling blood and its voracious appetite for more rings, shirts, parades, bragging rights and pride. bragging rights and pride. Anyone who says differently just fears the hammer that the Phillies have ready to drop on their shitty teams head. Who are you gonna throw at them, the Brewers? Braves? Red Sox? Get the fuck outta here! There is a lot of lost time to make up for and we as fans want to see it all culminate into a legacy of brutality. We will never be satisfied, bored or dismissive, we want it all and nothing can change that about Phillies fans. Now, the next generation of Phillies Fan is going to be a different story. Hopefully their grandparents don’t let them forget how shitty this team was for many years. If not, we’re fucked as a race and we’ll be no better or worse than the slime that breeds just 99 miles up the New Jersey turnpike. n John Sharkey III is a notorious Philadelphia Asshole. The views expressed in TBSS are his own.

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Fall ArtsGuide Dear culture vultures: For months we scoured the city to bring you the best of what Philly has to offer this season, and we think we’ve done a damn good job of bringing something for everyone. Into art? You should know that curators and artists everywhere are doing their best to take art out of their galleries and into your community. Want theater? See below for a scrappy, independent circus troupe whose stunts you should never try at home. There’s also a roundup of what’s on tap for our favorite stages. If comedy is your thing, turn to Page 25 for a list of the season's best events (like a tribute to the late Mitch Hedberg, he of the famous one-line zingers). Music? Check Page 32. Dance? The Russian ballet awaits you on Page 24. We even examine the state of storytelling (Page 26), which, of course, is the world's oldest favorite pastime yet somehow a "novelty" in today's world. Enjoy all this and more! Love, PW.

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Best of Fall Theater By J. Cooper Robb jrobb@philadelphiaweekly.com The upcoming theater season is bigger and more diverse than ever. What follows is our attempt to compile some of the most interesting productions happening on Philly’s many stages.

Aspects of Love

Walnut Street Theatre, the city’s oldest and largest company, kicks off its 203rd season with Andrew Lloyd Webber’s romantic chamber musical Aspects of Love. The story follows Alex, a young man in 1940s Europe who falls madly in love with an enchanting actress, Rose. Swept off his feet, Alex takes Rose to his uncle’s gorgeous villa for a passionate affair. Unfortunately for the teenager, the handsome uncle is likewise smitten with the gorgeous actress, leading to a confrontation and a complicated love story that spans both a continent and several tumultuous decades in European history. Through Oct. 23. $10-$95. Walnut Street Theatre, 825 Walnut St. 215.574.3550. walnutstreettheatre.org

August: Osage County

The best American play since Angels in America comes to town with August: Osage County, an epic story of family dysfunction from playwright Tracy Letts. The Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning drama is as big as it is bold. A return to the time when large casts and grand sets ruled the American stage, Director Terrence J. Nolen’s production at the Arden features an all-star Philly cast led by Carla Belver and the inestimable Grace Gonglewski. Sept.29-Oct. 30. $29-$45. Arden Theatre Company, 40 N. Second St. 215.922.1122. ardentheatre.org

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Super Troupers: Alejandro DuBois (left) is Phantasmagoria's ringmaster and fire-eater. MacKenzie Moltov (center) is the group's sexy circus clown who lies on beds of nails, among other daring stunts. Mariana Mystique is the aerial trapeze wonder.

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Scraps of fabric billow in the air as strings of sparkling white lights cast shadows over the audience, creating a blithe, mystical ambience. The ringleader abruptly ends this whimsical facade as he bellows into the microphone: “Don’t perform these stunts, you’ll fuck yourself up,” Alejandro DuBois says. “And please make a mother fucking donation to our mother fucking crew.” It’s an oppressively humid night in Northern Liberties as the crowd, sitting cross-legged on the floor like impatient school children, goes silent. The eclectic gathering glows luminously in white inside the capacious belly of Bookspace, a used-bookstore recently prohibited by the fire marshal from hosting performances due to a lack of a special assembly permit. The crowd stares as DuBois, the master of ceremonies, begins the show. Before his explicit caveat, DuBois enters the stage dancing furiously, his shoulder-length dreads whipping around like car-wash wipers, while donning a

grotesque, French-style mask with a cartoonishly large nose. Ripping the gold mask from his face as if it were on fire, he begins: “Welcome to Phantasmagoria Circus, a show with freaks, geeks, wonders and human curiosities. It may even delight the most delicate sensibilities.” The Phantasmagoria Circus Sideshow, a circus revival troupe, certainly never fails to delight. Yet they would certainly succeed in horrifying anyone remotely delicate. Phantasmagoria, a New York-based group of circus performers who travel along the East Coast performing jaw-dropping (and often cringe-worthy) stunts and tricks, revive classic sideshow at Northern Liberties every First Friday. The troupe consists of three ardent circus enthusiasts: ‘Brother’ DuBois, 27, the ringmaster and fire-eater; ‘Reverend’ MacKenzie Moltov (who declines to give her age because she believes “all performers are ageless”), the sexy circus clown who performs burlesque, stilt-walks, fire-hula hoops and who lies on beds of nails;

The best playwright you’ve never heard of (Craig Wright) returns to 1812 Productions—which enjoyed a huge success with Wright’s Recent Tragic Events—with Mistakes Were Made. Fresh off his lovely performance in Pig Iron’s Twelfth Night, Scott Greer stars as a Broadway producer who abandons his usual mindless fare to mount an innovative and risky play. Director Matt Pfeiffer’s production is a good bet to become the season’s sleeper hit. Oct. 6-30. $20-$36. Plays and Players Theatre, 1714 Delancey St. 215.592.9560. 1812productions.org

Philly Urban Theatre Festival

It doesn’t get as much attention as the Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe, but last year 3,500 patrons enjoyed a host of new plays at the city’s first Philly Urban Theatre Festival. Showcasing works from predominately black artists, this year’s PUTF features work from 14 playwrights including festival founder Kash Goins’ one-man show Tonight?, which examines the effects of juvenile abuse on a serial killer, and Amiri Baraka’s classic play The Slave, which is receiving a production from one of Norristown’s leading companies, Iron Age Theatre Company. Through Oct. 9. $15-$20. The Adrienne, 2030 Sansom St. putf.org >> continued on next page

room apartment in Brooklyn, where they are constantly collaborating with new ideas for Phantasmagoria themes and acts. The group is self-taught, save for Mystique, who attends rigorous, painful aerial trapeze training for six to 12 hours daily. Moltov, resembling a graceful, adult version of Raggedy Ann, confirms that she is a “100 percent self-taught.” “When you play with fire, you get burned,” Moltov says. “That’s kind of the way it works with sideshow. You usually just teach yourself. It takes a lot of guts, and you just really have to want to do it.” On the business end, the group is also completely independent. They do all promotional legwork, planning and bookings by themselves. But Moltov clarifies that there is never one controlling monarch in the group.

New Jerusalem

Bound to be the season’s longest title, Lantern Theater’s production of New Jerusalem, The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656 concerns a groundbreaking philosopher forced to defend himself against a charge of atheism during the darkest days of the Inquisition. The favorite son of a small Jewish community who flees the Inquisition in Portugal only to encounter more intolerance in supposedly liberal Amsterdam, Spinoza soon finds himself facing excommunication from the Jewish faith. Structured as a courtroom drama, the play explores the Jewish experience in 17th-century Europe, and Spinoza’s lasting influence on Western art, literature and ethical philosophies, many of which had a profound impact on America’s Founding Fathers. Oct. 6-30. $20-$36. St. Stephen’s Theater, 10th & Ludlow sts. 215.829.0395. lanterntheater.org

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and Mariana Mystique, the 19-year-old aerial trapeze wonder. They also recruit a motley crew of seven to 10 other entertainers: Queen Yareli, the belly dancer; Jess Monte, a fellow aerial performer; Joe Lunchbox, the freak-show daredevil; Natiamos, a “natural born” with disfigured hands who performs fire manipulation and other stunts; and a collection of other madcap misfits. On this evening, Bookspace’s sleepy literary graveyard comes alive as the crowd bounces around white balloons to the sounds of a DJ spinning dubstep beats. The noticeably tipsy audience members take one last swig from their alcohol-filled water bottles and forties as the troupe begins “White Night.” White Night is when the performers—and most audience members—wear white. In the calm hours prior to the show, DuBois explains that White Night symbolizes a light in these increasingly

Our Class

The Wilma heads in another direction with the U.S. premiere of Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek’s Our Class. If you don’t speak Polish, fear not: The Wilma’s production utilizes Ryan Craig’s English version so you will understand every word of Slobodzianek’s drama that chronicles the lives of 10 schoolmates from the 1920s to the dawn of the new millennium. Oct. 12-Nov. 13. $39-$66. Wilma Theater. 265 S. Broad St. 215.546.7824. wilmatheater.org

Red

Tough as nails: "I have scars all over my knees," Moltov says. "But I love it. 'Cause when I bleed on that bed of nails, it shows my passion. I bleed the circus when I lie on that bed of nails."

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Act a Lady

Azuka Theatre opens the city’s newest performance space with its production of Act a Lady, a delightful comedy by one of America’s slyest and most engaging playwrights, Jordan Harrison. Harrison’s charming story concerns a small Prohibition-era town that produces a play in which the men of the town dress as women. Blurring the lines between gender as well as art and life, Lady is a hilarious and surprisingly touching play that celebrates “the woman in every man.” Azuka’s staging debuts the new 100-seat theater at the First Baptist Church on 17th and Sansom streets. Nov. 3-20. $15-$27. First Baptist Church, 17th and Sansom sts. 215.733.0255. azukatheatre.org

Billy Elliot

If big, blockbuster Broadway musicals are your bag, you can’t beat the Academy of Music’s Billy Elliot, which features Elton John’s ﬁnest musical score and 45 cast members. The sweet and sprightly choreographed show about a boy who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer will enchant even the most cynical of theatergoers. Nov. 16-27. $20-$150. Academy of Music, Broad and Locust sts. 215.893.1999. kimmelcenter.org/broadway

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“We’re a team,” Moltov says. “There’s no one leader. We all play such a strong role in the development of the show. Nothing is final until we all agree on it.” Although hailing from different backgrounds, the three were lured by the mysterious siren song of the circus due to a common interest in the bizarre, the esoteric and the daring. Adjusting his feathered fedora that’s cocked to the side, DuBois recounts his childhood amazement watching his cousin, Serpentina, charm snakes in the renowned Coney Island Circus Sideshow, where he works 50 hours a week. He learned by mimicking the circus aficionados, and then perfected the craft through trial and error. DuBois’ burning obsession with circus pyromania knows no limitations. Once the fire begins to burn, he is immersed in his own infernal universe. With eyes alight, he draws my attention to a noticeable scar spanning the length of his arm. “You take a torch and you light your arm on fire and make a trail of fire,” he describes excitedly. “I get into these modes where I just don’t care. I just took it [the fire] fresh and put it on, and let it go out on my arm, just to see if I could do it. But when you get to that point, you’re not even there anymore.” Moltov, the most outspoken member, shows the same passion for circus as DuBois, even in the face of excruciating pain. Similar to DuBois, she points to her legs, which are sprinkled up

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dark times, an ephemeral respite to remedy a darkness not only faced by society, but by the troupe on a deeply personal level. “This will be the light show, the shining light in the darkness, because a lot of us are having problems right now. It’s just a really rough time,” DuBois says. “We’re just trying to make people take their minds off their lives for just that hour and a half, two hours that we’re onstage, and to witness something amazing and beautiful.” The light show certainly begins lightheartedly, with the sparkling lights creating a soft, almost mystical ambience. But Phantasmagoria is never without its edge. DuBois and Mystique founded the fledgling crew— Phantasmagoria is only five months old—in a spontaneous moment of happenstance. DuBois, a Brooklyn native, met Mystique, a Philly native, while working with another troupe in West Philly, and they began performing together wherever they could. “The first time we performed together, we were at a park in West Philadelphia, and we had all these little kids just standing around—30 or 40 kids,” DuBois says. “And we just thought, wow, we have something good here. The next thing you know, we just put this together, and we knew enough people to make it a bigger show.” After meeting Moltov (also a Philly area native) in Philadelphia, the three formed the perfect circus trifecta. They moved in together into a tiny one-

Philadelphia Theatre Company gets their season going with John Logan’s Tony Award-winning drama Red. Focusing on abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, the two-actor production stars Broadway vet Stephen Rowe and Haley Joel Osment, who is best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as the Philadelphia boy who saw dead people in The Sixth Sense. Oct. 14-Nov. 13. $25-$59. Suzanne Roberts Theatre, Broad and Lombard sts. philadelphiatheatrecompany.org

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and down with tiny nicks: shadows of past pain from lying on a bed of nails. “I have scars all over my knees. You can see the pattern of the nails. But I love it,” Moltov says. “Cause when I bleed on that bed of nails, it shows my passion. I bleed the circus when I lie on that bed of nails.” Mystique, the most soft-spoken of the group with dark eyes and flowing dark hair, heartedly agrees with her partners. She perhaps feels even more consistent aches than the others, yet swallows her pain as readily as DuBois swallows lighter fluid. “Our apparatuses are all fairly dangerous. I have a huge rope burn right here, and on my neck,” says Mystique, wearing matching knee braces. “But it’s the nature of the art. It’s temporary discomfort that is worthwhile if you really, really love what you’re doing.” “We’re all injured,” Moltov chimes in. “I have a hurt shoulder … he [DuBois] has a concussion. But they’re just … “Circus kisses,” finishes Mystique. Like DuBois, Moltov’s and Mystique’s genuine passion for the circus was planted at a young age. Moltov attended “freak” sideshows as a pre-teen, and by the tender age of 14 she was painting her face with white and red paint to assume a clown identity. “It’s just 100 percent natural,” says Moltov about her love of circus. “It’s in my DNA. I love being a clown. I love my red nose,” continues Moltov. “It’s who I am. The person you see on stage is definitely a part of me.” Mystique’s love of circus also started when she saw sideshow acts in Philly, and was instantly drawn to the aerial trapeze. The Phoenix-feather tattoo sprawled across her chest and shoulder symbolizes her birdlike spirit, which always longs to be soaring in midair. “There’s this one story by [writer Franz] Kafka called First Sorrow,” says Mystique. “It’s about an aerialist who … performs on the trapeze, and at very end of it, you see the aerialist on a train … in the coat rack, way up high, just curled into a ball, crying. And the other character asks, ‘Why are you cying?’ And she’s like, ‘I just want to be in the air!’ I just want to fly!” Although they all have very different acts, the theme is always cohesive, and changes with every new show. Yet, they have a consistent 18th-century, Vaudevillian theme that recalls the darker, edgier circuses of yore. They frequently don French-style masks, and Moltov wears traditional French clown makeup and performs Parisian-style burlesque. The show’s moodiness and eroticism is layered with what Moltov describes as “a little black magic sprinkled on top.” Such vintage circus art is enjoying a revival, with circus education, like the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts, and smaller-scale troupes, like Philadelphia’s Olde City Sideshow.

"When I bleed on that bed of nails, it shows my passion. I bleed the circus when I lie on that bed of nails." - MacKenzie Moltov DuBois cites the poor economy as a reason for the resurgence of scrappy, independent circus acts, while Mystique attributes it to a collective nostalgia. “It seems like everything in this country is basically mimicking the ’20s,” Mystique says. “So there’s a Vaudevillian resurgence in general.” That evening, sparkling “White Night” held on to Phantasmagoria’s signature vintage sexiness, with hints of darkness. After DuBois’ intro, Moltov kicks off the night with a sexy burlesque number, but cleverly in reverse: She comes out in underwear and pasties, and teasingly puts her clothes back on. Then some other circus members perform, including a mesmerizing performance by Lilith, an aerialist who swirls in mid-air on a swath of black fabric, and a sultry belly dance by Queen Yareli. Then, in one of the most memorable acts, they accept donations in a fittingly freak-show way: Audience members staple $10 and $20 dollar bills to Moltov’s bare skin. Ignoring the audience’s shouts of disbelief, DuBois uses the staple gun on himself—to staple his balls. A series of

other acts follow that elicit awe and recoiling from the audience, including stepping on broken glass and the infamous bed-of-nails act (during which Moltov simultaneously hulahoops with her leg.) The troupe then moves outside, where Moltov resembles a spinning top, gyrating inside a hula-hoop as dots of fire around its perimeter whip around at warp speed. DuBois then lunges forward, pours a transparent liquid into his mouth, and parts his lips to consume a raging flame. In a split second, a fluorescent explosion of fire springs from his mouth as if he were a ferocious mythical dragon. After going back into Bookspace, Mystique takes to the air, twirling gracefully on the mid-air trapeze, seemingly weightless, resembling an exotic bird in a white feathered mask. Despite Phantasmagoria’s antiquarian darkness, the night ends as lightheartedly as White Night intended to be, with balloons falling from the ceiling and a drunken dance party to the heavy beats of techno. Although White Night was not as G-rated as some might expect, Phantasmagoria took darkness to a whole other level at RUBA Club on Aug. 20 with White Night’s evil twin, “Black Night.” RUBA, a slightly seedy after-hours Russian and Ukrainian bar on 414 Green St., is the group’s new permanent venue for future First Friday performances. Once again, DuBois entered the stage, only this time he put on the mask, the sinister face of his inner stranger. “Tonight we celebrate the darkness,” he begins. “The darkness that resides within all of us.” Black Night was an erotic exploration of inner devilry, complete with nudity, razor-blade swallowing and simulations of rape. The group will surely live up to their reputation for being outrageous at their upcoming Halloween performance, taking place at the Media Bureau on N. Fourth Street. And the venues keep getting bigger: They’ll be performing at the Franklin Institute on Nov. 11. Each show is proof that Phantasmagoria is constantly evolving, and never failing to shock audiences with each new permutation. They’re bringing circus back with an audaciously fiery vengeance. But most apparent is their connection to circus art, which goes much deeper than skin; they seem to be truly composed of the circus, made of fire, nails, masks and wonders. “I could not feel this OK with being in a cubicle, or a kitchen, or a desk job, I couldn’t do that,” DuBois says. “This is my passion, this is what I love, this is what I’ve always loved.” Moltov concurs as Mystique nods in agreement. “Phantasmagoria is my expression, performance, and overall reason to live,” Moltov says. “It’s not just our job or our hobby that we love to do. It is us.” n

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Two curators are taking art out of the gallery and giving it to the people. By Katherine Rochester feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com This fall, new curators at two of Philadelphia’s most iconic university galleries are giving us all a reason to go back to school. Alex Klein (Institute of Contemporary Art at Penn) and Rob Blackson (Temple Gallery at Temple) have each thrown a wrench into the traditional, top-down model of exhibition-making, in which curators place art in a room and everyone else scrambles to make sense of it. Shifting their focus from the gallery to the community, Klein and Blackson are on the crest of a new kind of exhibition-making that values frank discussion over quiet contemplation.

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mezzanine level of the ICA with specially designed furniture, the project will function as an outpost for examining the circulatory patterns of materials before they wind up in an archive. Punctuated by speciﬁc special events, Klein hopes that Excursus will also serve as a space for casual, more off-the cuff programs. Adopting a more historically familiar format, ICA Salon will feature a group of artists and curators invited to discuss recent work, or, as Klein says, “Something so fresh that you haven’t had that distance to articulate it.” Her only requirement is that no one prepares in advance, a foil to the stiff lecture format that reliably produces watchchecking and chair-squirming. Driving both Excursus and ICA Salon is Klein’s conviction that mixing people from different walks of life will produce the most interesting discussions: “Painters don’t only talk to painters, photographers don’t only talk to photographers. I’m really interested in cross hairs and thinking about not always putting the most likely people in a room together.” And while Klein may be working for a university, she’s eager to distinguish her project from a pedantic mission: “I don’t have an education agenda, I’m not trying to teach anybody anything,” she says. Instead, she hopes that through dialog, people will teach each other. Such discussions are of personal and not just professional interest to Klein. “I do always think of myself as an artist ﬁrst and that’s the main hat that I wear.” As a trained artist with an active practice (Klein has an MFA from UCLA), Klein uses dialog as raw material for her own artistic practice. Describing the arc of her creative process, it’s clear that there’s less tension than alchemy at work in her marriage of the roles of artist and curator: “The discussions that I instigate in the institution lead into publications which lead back into objects. It’s all related,” she explains. “The great thing about doing something like art history from an artists’ perspective is that you can bend the rules and make connections outside of the discipline. That’s where the primary agency of an artist is—it lets you bend disciplinary boundaries.” As an artist, author of numerous exhibition catalogs, publisher of Oslo Editions, and now curator, Klein sees each role as one strategy among many: “It’s the way I think through problems, stepping into different places. It just means I’m incredibly busy!”

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The summer months tend to be slower in art museums, but Klein, who began her role as program curator at the ICA in June, has hardly had a moment’s rest. Created to replace what had previously been known as the Education Department, her newly minted position is a bold attempt to redeﬁne the gallery experience by placing conversations with the public on equal institutional footing with the artwork in the galleries. Translated into actual events on the calendar, this means replacing talks with conversations and lecture halls with casual dens of communication. Excursus and ICA Salon are both new programs that Klein hopes will make ICA a space for an ongoing discussion about artistic practice in the institution. She describes Excursus as “an exhibition built for a program,” a series of artist-inresidencies designed to mine the ICA archive for historical material that may spark contemporary conversations. In its ﬁrst installment, Philadelphia-based designer Andy Beach (who curates under the name Reference Library) recreated the Centaur, a radical bookstore cum scholarly nightclub in Philadelphia circa 1920. Installed on the

Since arriving at Temple in January, Blackson has embraced the role of good-natured contrarian when it comes to gallery conventions, flaunting the inherited idea that the gallery should be the nucleus of an exhibition. “It’s obvious to me that the way it really slices down is that public programs is the pie and exhibitions are one slice of it because all of our engagement with the public is in some way a program,” says Blackson. He prefers to think of the white cube as just one component to a much livelier spread of arts activities which might involve urban forage or an office chair relay race. Trained at the Bard Center for Curatorial Studies—a program known for producing adventuresome, theoretically irreproachable curators—Blackson recalls the moment he squared his academic philosophy with the reality of working in a university art gallery: “There was this really huge shift in my practice between when you’re just doing a show for the general public versus when you’re trying to consider what an educational institution wants to provide in relation to contemporary art.” It wasn’t exactly an issue that most other school-affiliated galleries seemed overly eager to address. “I’m increasingly amazed as I get more

focused in this direction at how many university art galleries take on the model of just a regular commercial gallery or other museum,” he says. Citing the endless multiplication of art workshops for kids and lecture programs for adults, Blackson is frustrated by what he perceives to be a lack of educational commitment: “I’ve grown to think that’s backward. As an educational facility, what we need to learn should take precedence.” For his part, the learning process begins by asking the community which issues matter most to them. The Temple Gallery Advisory Council (which Blackson immediately formed) boasts 10 students, 10 faculty administrators and 10 citizens from greater Philadelphia who represent professionals in geography, diplomacy, health, communications, business, creative economy, parks and recreation, some urban gardening, tourism, and the arts community. Blackson suspected that assembling people from diverse backgrounds was the key to creating exhibitions that community members might actually want to see. It dawned on him that programming should be at least a two-way street (if not a complex, sometimes harrowing intersection) and that “perhaps just one guy sitting in a nice office cannot make those [programming] decisions by himself alone,” Blackson says. In the spirit of grand inquisitiveness, each Advisory Council member arrives at meetings (of which there are three per year) with a question. These communitygenerated questions form the basis of gallery programming, and their relevance to the Philadelphia community (reflected by a council vote) is directly proportionate to the resources Blackson invests in them. Topics are broad, like “soil and open spaces,” getting the most votes, while grittier issues such as “AIDS” and “veterans and reintegration,” ranked significantly lower. All told, it’s an ambitious spread of programs whose success relies on the support of the local community, which is just the way Blackson wants it. “I’ve completely bought into that what art is essentially good for is having an emotional connection to others and the world.” This rings true for Blackson even when his programs migrate from the outside world into the gallery space. “The gallery can wear a lot of hats,” he points out. “I’m convinced by this idea that for the most part we can be a site for meals, secret cinema or a blood drive.” With this provocation in mind, it isn’t surprising that when asked about his favorite art space in town, Blackson mentioned a hardware store near his house: “The guy’s really friendly, always wants to talk to you about some stuff he’s got in. He’s kind of like a good gallery assistant.” After all, where we might see a regular blood drive taking place, Blackson sees the potential for meaningful social interactions. “Rarely,” says Blackson, “is it much of a leap before we can tie it in to our programming.” ■

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This fall’s all about public participation. By Roberta Fallon rfallon@philadelphiaweekly.com

118 S. 36th St. 215.898.7108. icaphila.org

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The Sept. 21 “Free For All” event has everything in one package—a lecture on contemporary art by Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner, a screen-printing workshop, and a party with music and snacks. Don’t miss “Bill Walton’s Studio”—the late artist’s actual studio, brought into the ICA’s Project Space and re-created even down to the weathered ﬂoor boards. Programming involves a “sharing” day on Dec. 4, when artists who knew Walton will share stories about the artist; and everyone will receive an ephemeral giveaway object. Check out ICA’s blog, Miranda, for behind the scenes tidbits and pictures, and give them some feedback—you know you’re dying to.

Grizzly Grizzly 319 N. 11th St., 2nd Floor. grizzlygrizzly.com Things are most often interactive in the alternative venues. Grizzly Grizzly, one of the very best of the new spaces, will have its ﬁrst open-call juried exhibit Nov. 4-27, and viewers will be asked to vote on their favorite work. The artist receiving the most votes will be awarded a solo exhibit at the gallery.

Philadelphia Photo Arts Center 1400. N. American St. 215.232.5678. philaphotoarts.org

Greenhouse effect: The APS Museum invites you to take a stroll through its backyard.

The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center has its second Philly Photo Day (Oct. 28). All snapshot-shooters are invited to take a picture within the city limits and upload it to the PPAC website for this nonjuried, come-one-come-all event with an exhibit of all submitted works opening Nov. 10. Last year, nearly 350 people participated and PPAC hopes to double that number this year.

American Philosophical Society Museum 105 S. Fifth St. 215.440.3400. apsmuseum.org The APS Museum commissioned art, design, music, a play and a lot of programming for its Greenhouse Project, in conjunction with its exhibit Of Elephants and Roses. “Greenhouse and the Cabinet of Future Fossils” by architecture and design guru Jenny Sabin (Cornell prof with a design studio at Crane Old School) sits in the APS Museum’s Jefferson Garden, an ancient and futuristic-looking ediﬁce resembling the bleached bones of Moby Dick washed up at Fifth and Chestnut and bedazzled. More than 100 colorful green, orange and blue cold frames with plants and vines pepper the piece, and all objects in the project (except a few ceramic pieces) were made using the latest design and fabrication tools (3-D printers; laser cutters). Don’t miss the science talk on the chili pepper by molecular researcher Joseph Rucker (Sept. 12 at National Mechanics); the talk by community artist Fritz Haeg about his recent project, Animal Estates (Sept. 20); and the talk and greenhouse walkthrough with Jenny Sabin (Oct. 20). The free programs require an RSVP.

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Speaking of greenhouses, Jordan Griska’s Grumman Greenhouse in PAFA’s new Lenfest Plaza (with the Oldenburg Paint Brush) will be an eyeful. A complete cold-war era airplane, installed nose down and tail up with plants in the nose cone, the piece will be nice counterbalance to the slick Oldenburg piece. ■

It’s often difficult to see the intersection of art and public engagement in the country’s major art centers because in these places, art has an undeniable commercial link that disconnects it from the common man. But this fall, Philadelphia’s galleries and museums are looking in their own backyards to find artists who are working against this notion, producing work about their diverse communities and engage the people within them. Dan Murphy is one of many artists this fall taking cues from the richness of Philadelphia. “Do what you should/to save your hood,” reads one of the tiny white buttons affixed to a Hindu god graphic tee in his exhibition, Certain Things, at Fleisher/ Ollman Gallery. The shirt, from the piece “King’s Colllar,” features a number of sewnon patches and hand-clipped buttons that represent Philly through the eyes of Murphy, a world traveler and life-long resident of the Philadelphia area. But it’s the “Do What You Should” pin—with its portly black man looking fly as ever in an ’80s-style sweatsuit drawn prominently on its right side—that sticks out the most in this show. Many of the shows at Philly’s most diverse galleries and museums this fall are doing their best to focus on young artists who are doing exactly what that pins are encouraging: to work directly with the culturally diverse and socially complicated areas that the artists reside in. In many cases, this work occurs outside of posh Center City, and in places like the post-industrial Port Richmond, the ethic melting pot that is West Philadelphia and the constantly changing artist hub of Fishtown. In October, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts leads the march with a show called here., which casts off the pejorative “provincial” nature often associated with regionalism. Consisting of six curators, each of whom selected works from their respective cities, the show looks at the way place and community affects the artists working in cities removed from the art centers of New York and Los Angeles. Megawords, the community–driven duo made up of Murphy and Anthony Smyrski, will be creating a hyper-distribution point in the entry of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art’s North Broad Street building, creating another one of their alternative spaces to be enjoyed by members of the nonart community. And illustrator and video artist Jennifer Levonian will contribute new works that explore her place within the context of her mostly Mexican neighborhood. (Darren White) ■

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Rob Blackson, the new director of exhibitions and programs, and his advisory council brainstormed a number of sociallythemed issues. On tap: sustainability, natural-gas drilling, toxic waste and AIDS, to name a few. There will be two programs a week, Blackson says, which could include Monday morning coffee hours in the gallery with lectures and free coffee and snacks (coFREE Mondays began Sept. 12) or dinners in the gallery with foraged greens from the neighborhood (Feast of Forage, Sept. 21). Other programs include the True Blood Mobile (Oct. 28) and the Big Shale Teach-In (Nov. 3-4). This month, British artist Sara MacKillop takes charge of the gallery’s welcome desk, a white desk with an abnormally high and unwelcoming wall on the front end. Turning the chilly piece into something interactive, the artist will ﬁll the desk drawers

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Movers & Shakers

Best of the dance world.

By Tamara DeMent feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

after man in the dance world, Ratmansky—currently an artist in residence at American Ballet Theater—will be arriving in Philadelphia next month to set his version of Jeu de Cartes on the Pennsylvania Ballet. “It was a whole process to get Alexei here,” says Roy Kaiser, the artistic director of the Pennsylvania Ballet. “I’m a big fan of his work. It’s a big ‘coup’ for the company.” Ratmansky originally created Jeu de Cartes, which has its own legacy, for the Bolshoi Ballet in 2005, for which he received a 2006 Golden Mask award for Best Choreographer from the Theatre Union of Russia. A dance artist who was trained in Russia but absorbed the inﬂuences of many Western choreographers as a dancer in the West, Ratmansky has produced works that have gained him international acclaim. Jeu de Cartes just jumped out at me,” Kaiser continues. “It’s such wonderful work. And there’s no narrative to it. It’s an incredible score and what I think our company does extremely well, just non-stop dance movement.” The original iteration for Jeu de Cartes began with Igor Stravinsky, who composed Jeu de Cartes (Card Game: A Ballet in Three Deals) for the ﬁrst Stravinsky Festival mounted by Balanchine at the Metropolitan Opera in 1937. In the original version, dancers were costumed to represent the four suits in a deck of cards, and the joker was the central character. Ratmansky’s interpretation is more abstract. “Alexei, very wisely, took a very different direction [in his version of Jeu de Cartes],” says Kaiser, “with the way he treated the music. His interpretation of the music is very abstract.”

for his choreographic work “This Is It/It Is This” last May, Carbon artistic director and former Pennsylvania Ballet Soloist Meredith Rainey launches the company into another season with Swan Songs at the Performance Garage on Brandywine Street. This opening dance concert will feature premiering works by Rainey, Kate Watson-Wallace, the co-director of Philadelphiabased Dance Company, Anonymous Bodies, and Matthew Neenan, the artistic director of BalletX. Carbon Dance Theater produces dance that is rooted in classical ballet and imbued with the “collaborative process of theater.”

Philadanco! 9 N. Preston St. 215.387.8200. philadanco.org

Fall Guide Dance

Pennsylvania Ballet 240-250 S. Broad St. paballet.org The best of Russian dance choreography is on its way to Philadelphia this fall. On Oct. 20, the Pennsylvania Ballet will present Russian Suite—a production featuring the North American premiere of Jeu de Cartes—by eminent choreographer and former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet, Alexei Ratmanksy. The program will also feature two works by George Balanchine. Recently extolled in the New Yorker as the most sought-

Carbon Dance Theatre 2920 Cambridge St. carbondancetheatre.com After winning The A.W.A.R.D. Show 2011 Philadelphia

Known for its zestful energy and commitment to preserving the traditions of African-American dance, Philadanco will perform the premiere of Watching Go By, the day by former Philadanco soloist Hope Boykin. La Valse by Gene Hill Sagan is also on the program, along with Christopher Huggins’ Blue and by George Faison’s Suite Otis.

Lionel Popkin 1515 Brandywine St. 215.569.4060. ruddydance.org Catch choreographer Lionel Popkin dancing in his 50-minute choreographic work, There is an Elephant in this Room at the Performance Garage. This pachydermic oeuvre premiered in Los Angeles last spring. Drawing from his own multi-religious background, Popkin uses religious symbolism—mainly the elephant god Ganesh, Remover of Obstacles—to investigate the concept of multiple identities. Gabrielle Revlock’s SHARE! is also appearing on the program. ■

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Featuring the North American premiere of Jeu de Cartes by Alexei Ratmansky

"The most sought-after man in ballet..." - The New Yorker on Alexei Ratmansky

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Laugh it up this season.

Paul Mooney While probably best known as “Negrodamus” from Chappelle’s Show, this vet comic got his start in the business back in the ’70s writing material for Richard Pryor and went on to serve as head writer on In Living Color. Oct. 5-8. 8pm, 10:30pm. $15-$22. Helium, 2031 Sansom St. 215.496.9001. heliumcomedy.com

By Nicole Finkbiner nﬁnkbiner@philadelphiaweekly.com

Philadelphia Comedy Month For three straight glorious weeks, some of the funniest local and national acts will be right here in our city, hamming it up nightly. It all kicks off with the Philly Improv Festival (Oct. 5-9), featuring an impressive lineup of local favorites like Matt& and The Kristen & Amie Show in addition to nationally renown improviser, Jill Bernard’s one-woman, multi-character musical, Drum Machine. Next up is Philly Sketch Fest (Oct. 10-17), followed by the city’s ﬁrst City Spotlight (Oct. 17-21), a mix of ﬁlm screenings and stand-up. The comedy extravaganza concludes with the Mid Atlantic Regional College Improv Championship (Oct. 5-23). Various times. $10$20. Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, 2111 Sansom St. 215.496.9722. phillyshakespeare.org

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Fall Guide Comedy

I Love Mitch Hedberg

Local artists and comedians will come together to pay tribute to a late and great comic whose unique delivery and memorable one-liners garnered him a cult following. The evening will include a comedy showcase, free beer, unreleased footage of Hedberg and a special appearance by his widow, Lynn Shawcrowft. The gallery will also unveil a Hedberg-inspired art show featuring the work of several local artists on view through Oct. 15. Oct. 1. 7pm. Free. PhilaMOCA, 531 N. 12th St. 267.519.9651. philamoca.org

Superheroes Are Super! Comic book nerds rejoice! Now you can watch your favorite classic comic book titles come to life during these staged, word-for-word readings, equipped with low-budget costumes, special effects, witty wordplay and, of course, some physical hijinks. The October “issue” will include a performance of Tomb of Dracula #10 from 1976 and a spe-

1812 Productions, Philly’s all-comedy theater, is bringing back its hit original political satire for its sixth straight year. With a script that changes nightly, a team of comics takes on local and national politics with wit and maybe even a song or two. The theater will also be kicking off its 15th season in October with the critically acclaimed off-Broadway comedy Mistakes Were Made. Nov. 25-Dec. 31. Various times. $28-$36. Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St. 215.735.0630. playsandplayers.org

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Funny Business

cial appearance by Philly cartoonist Robert Berry, who will be honoring the recently deceased graphic artist Gene Colan and his legendary work. December’s “issue” will have a holiday theme. Oct. 21-22. Dec. 9-10. 9pm. $12-$15. Plays & Players Theater, 1714 Delancey St. 215.735.0630. playsandplayers.org

The Gross Show

This trashy talk show aims to make The Jerry Springer Show look like an episode of Little House on the Prairie. Each month, host Alex Gross and a few comedic guests seek out some of the most fucked up people in Philly, air their dirty laundry and hopefully get the audience feeling appalled, amused and uncomfortable. Sept. 30, Oct. 28 and Dec. 9. 10:30pm. $10. The Shubin Theater, 407 Bainbridge St. 215.592.0119. phillyimprovtheater.com

Michael Ian Black After his sold-out show at the Troc last year, Black is returning for his new “Black is White” tour. If by some chance you don’t recognize his name, you’d deﬁnitely recognize his face. The actor, writer and director has appeared on numerous TV series including The State, Stella, Michael & Michael Have Issues and VH1’s I Love the … series. Nov. 11. 8pm. $19. The Trocadero, 1003 Arch St. 215.922.6888. thetroc.com ■

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A look at the world’s oldest pastime.

By Nicole Finkbiner nﬁnkbiner@philadelphiaweekly.com Hillary Rea

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Do Tell

The crowd that gathered in the upstairs bar at The Dive last Tuesday night was there for more than cheap beer, cold pizza and pleasant conversation—they were there to hear a story. With no stage and very limited floor space, the evening’s host, local comedian, writer and storyteller Jaime Fountaine stood in the doorway and gave the two-minute, better-get-anotherbeer-while-you-still-can warning before introducing the performers. Six storytellers then proceeded to brave the room of semi-intoxicated strangers, sharing personal experiences befitting the show’s theme of “Lessons Learned.” Usually revealed at the end, theses lessons were more like punch lines to really long, yet consistently funny jokes. Fountaine, 26, has been hosting her monthly storytelling series at the beloved South Philly watering hole since 2009. A year before that, she started the bar’s quarterly performance series “Toiling in Obscurity,” which showcases the work of local writers, musicians and comedians. It was only about four years ago that the full-time coffee barista and aspiring fiction writer first got in front of an audience to share a personal tale out loud at another local storytelling show. Now, she has three of her own. “Storytelling and talking in public have definitely changed the way I write fiction,” Fountaine says. “I’ve just sort of developed a sense of what will be entertaining and how to structure it.” Considering that storytelling has been around as long as humans, it seems silly to call it a “trend.” But that’s really the only way to describe the slew of storytelling/ live-reading events that have popped up around the city within past five years or so. Perhaps the most familiar is First Person Arts’ monthly StorySlams, which open the stage up to anyone who thinks they’ve got a good story and can impress a panel of audience members. “People want a chance to be known," says founder Vicki Solot. "And we as an organization want to give people the chance to get to know one another.” In November, First Person Arts will be celebrating its 10th anniversary with 11 days of programming and performances featuring both local and national artists from a variety of different mediums.

While StorySlams might be the most successful storytelling venture in the city the other five or so regular storytelling events are the work of local comedians. Kicking off the “lady portion of the evening” last week at Fountaine’s “Second Stories” was fellow comedian Hillary Rea, 29, who talked about a camp she spent a summer at as a child that she’s now convinced was a cult. Though undeniably funny, she delivered the story with such ease and assertiveness that you were almost too captivated to laugh. “Every storyteller should have a strong and individualized style,” Rea says. And that she did. Over the years, the freelance teaching artist has dabbled across the comedy spectrum. In addition to hosting her own two-hour, bimonthly show “Tell Me A Story,” featuring nine curated stories and one “wild card” act, Rae is a member of the local indie improv team Where’s Hillary? and just finished performing in the Fringe show, Dark Comedy. Like Fountaine, Rae just sort of stumbled into comedy via storytelling. “The things that people are interested in talking about and the things that make for interesting stories usually have to be at least a little bit funny,” says Fountaine. At the country’s major comedy theaters like Upright Citizens Brigade, similar shows have been a staple for years and now, Philly Improv Theater is following suit. Comedian Kevin Allison, creator and host of the podcast and bi-coastal show, “RISK!” is slated to begin teaching a storytelling class at the theater this fall and next month, it’s launching a Monday night storytelling block featuring Fountaine’s storytelling competition “Rant-O-Wheel” and Rea’s new show, “Fibber.” “Rant-O-Wheel” gives contestants five minutes to tell a story that includes three nouns suggested by the audience then determined by a big wheel. “Fibbers” is also storytelling competition, but with a twist—one of the four stories is a lie. It’s up to the audience to interrogate the performers then vote for on who is lying. “I think the trend towards storytelling in Philly, and the quality of the storytellers the city has produced, are further proof that Philly has a maturing comedy scene that is going to be on par with places like Chicago, New York and L.A.,” says PHIT’s founder, Greg Maughan. What makes storytelling different from the other comedic forms is the total freedom it allows performers to experiment with the art of laugher without necessarily having to be hah-hah funny. Part of what makes their storytelling performances so uniquely entertaining is their DIY approach. Even if you didn’t know anyone upstairs at The Dive last Tuesday, by the end, you felt like you did. “I think the scrappiness is helpful,” Fountaine says. “There’s a sense of familiarity that you don’t get in a professional theater setting … it feels a little more Philadelphia.” ■

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Spoken Word Jus’ Words

Thursdays, 9pm. $5. Dowling’s Palace, 1310 N. Broad St. 215.236.9888. dowlingspalace.com

Open Mic and Poetry Slam

Fridays in October, 8pm. InFusion A Coffee and Tea Gallery, 7133 Germantown Ave. 215.248.1718. infusioncoffeeandtea.com

The Harvest: Spoken Soul 215 Open Mic

Oct. 25 and Nov. 30, 8pm. $10-$12. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. worldcafelive.com

The Women’s Writing & Spoken Word Series Every third Wednesday, 7pm. $5. Moonstone Arts Center, 110A S. 13th St. womenswritingseries.org

The Art of Conversation

Oct. 3 and Nov. 7, 8pm. $7-$10. The Arts Garage, 1533 Ridge Ave. 443.567.0717. poetry247.com/aocphilly

Philadelphia Revival Oct. 8, 7-10pm. $15. Space Is The Place, 1319 South St.

Voices in Power “We Are Only Heard If We Speak” Oct. 16, 7pm. $5. HeadHouse Lounge, 122 Lombard St. voicesinpower.com

Word of Mouth

Oct 29, 3:30-6:30pm. $10. 7165 Lounge, 7165 Germantown Ave. 267.571.9578. voicesinpower.com

Fall Guide Storytelling

Second Stories: Oct. 11 and Nov. 8. Free. The Dive, 947 E. Passyunk Ave. 215.465.5505. facebook.com/the.dive.bar First Person Arts Festival: Nov. 10-20. Various locations. ﬁrstpersonarts.org Tell Me A Story: Sept. 21 and Nov. 16. 7pm. Free. Shot Tower Coffee, 542 Christian St., shottowercoffee.com

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Toiling in Obscurity: Sept. 23. Free. Dive Bar, 947 E. Passyunk Ave. 215.465.5505. facebook.com/the.dive.bar

Second and Third Friday of each month, 7:30pm. $10. October Gallery, 6353 Greene St. octobergallery.com

First Person StorySlams

Oct. 10, 8:30pm. $10. “Close Calls.” World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. ﬁrstpersonarts.org E R I K A L E E VO N I E

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Panoramic Poetry

First Person Story Slams

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Opera Company of Philadelphia

Carmen September 30, october 2m, 5, 9m & 14, 2011 at the

Academy of Music Sung in French with English translations

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“ … a sensation. From the moment she slinks downstage…. this [carmen] uses the music like promises and threats, coaxing, cajoling, insinuating, bending the melody.” —The Independent on Rinat Shaham’s Glyndebourne debut

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Fall Pass A look at this season’s can’t-miss ﬂicks. By Sean Burns

sburns@philadelphiaweekly.com Footloose

What I look forward to most about the fall season—in addition to far more tolerable weather and post-season baseball—is that by and large the movies tend to get better. Freed from the tyranny of mega-budget summer blockbusters while gearing up for the end-ofthe year awards bait, sometimes a critic can go two or even three weeks without seeing a single remake or sequel. Even better, most of these ﬁlms have the decency to not be in 3-D. Of course, there are always exceptions. The ﬁrst and strangest thing you’ll notice about the trailer for Brett Ratner’s Tower Heist (11/4), is that Eddie Murphy looks like he’s trying. (I iminal hired know, it’s been awhile.) As a fast-talking criminal by Ben Stiller and Matthew Broderick to knock over the penthouse apartment of a Bernie Madoff-styled swindler played by Alan Alda, Murphy seems to be back in full Billy Ray Valentine mode. Ratner’s movies rarely deliver, but his new working relationship with Murphy is how the latter ended up hosting next year’s Oscar ceremony. Will this be beginning of a long-awaited comeback, or just another crappy Eddie Murphy movie? Some stories are indeed timeless, so I guess that’s why this generation needs their own Footloose (10/14). Let’s hear it for the boy Kenny Wormald, taking up the mantle of Ren McCormick, spiky-haired troublemaker in a podunk town that has outlawed dancing. Dennis Quaid steps in for John Lithgow as the pop-music hating preacher, but I for one am bummed they couldn’t talk Kevin Bacon into taking the role. (He seems to have a good sense of humor about this kind of thing.) Curiously enough, the remake was directed by Craig Brewer, whose previous picture Black Snake Moan centered on a nymphomaniac Christina Ricci chained to a radiator. Almost paradise? The trailer for Adam Sandler’s Jack And Jill (11/11)

caused quite a ruckus on the Internet a couple months back, mainly because it was indistinguishable from the parody-trailers for terrible Sandler films in the comic’s unfairly maligned Funny People. Sandler once again stars as some absurdly wealthy dude who wears shorts to work, but in a terrifying twist also plays his own twin sister. Countless comedies have shown us that there’s nothing funnier than a dude dressed like a lady, particularly when he’s doing a wacky accent. An apparently dementia-addled Al Pacino pops up as himself, falling head over heels for the Sandler-vestite. Speaking of cross-dressing, Clint Eastwood and Leonardo DiCaprio are already hitting the interview circuit, explaining that their Oscar-bait J. Edgar (11/9) is “not a movie about two gay guys.” I don’t know how anybody would possibly jump to such a conclusion, considering that the picture chronicles J. Edgar Hoover’s lifelong “close friendship” with Clyde Tolson and has a script by Milk writer Dustin Lance Black. Biopics are generally my least favorite kind of pictures, but Eastwood is still Eastwood, and at the very least it will be fascinating to watch DiCaprio try and contort himself into a squat little troll. The Social Network’s Winklevii Armie Hammer plays Tolson, but there’s only one of him this time. You get a double dose of Clooney this fall. First, King George of Hollywood directs, co-writes and co-stars in The Ides Of March (10/7), a political drama based on Beau Willimon’s Off-Broadway play, Farragut North. The ubiquitous Ryan Gosling stars as an idealistic campaign worker who falls under the spell of Clooney’s charismatic “change candidate.” (Because that kind of thing always works out so well in the end.) Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Jeffrey Wright and Marisa Tomei round out the absurdly qualified cast. And George is back again a month later with The Descendants (11/15), writer-director Alexander Payne’s long-awaited follow up to 2004’s Sideways. Here Clooney stars as a Hawaiian family man who discovers that he’s been cuckolded, but not until after his wife quite inconveniently ends up in a coma. There’s been a curious disconnect between the picture’s rapturous reception at last month’s Telluride Film Festival and a Toronto premiere that went over significantly less well. Questions abound, like where the hell has Payne been for the last seven years, and why would any woman want to cheat on George Clooney? But these movies are all mere prelude to the fall’s biggest event. That’s right; I’m talking about the desperately anticipated wedding of Edward Cullen and Bella Swan. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part I (11/18) should provide a timely warning for teenage girls everywhere: It might seem like a fun idea at the time, but sex with sparkly vampires can ultimately cause serious damage to your lady-parts. Sadly, for reasons that only a cynic would assume have more to do with money-grubbing than artistic integrity, the film has been split into two parts, so it looks like we’ll have to wait another few months to watch Taylor Lautner’s hunky werewolf fall in love Breaking Dawn with a baby. ■

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In the (Art) House Small-budget releases need love too. By Matt Prigge mprigge@philadelphiaweekly.com Margaret: Ken Lonergan’s follow-up to 2000’s expertly

judged You Can Count On Me, has been so absurdly delayed some of us have written off ever seeing it. Filmed in 2005, then shuffled off to purgatory when no one could figure out how to edit it together, this epic look at the aftermath of a bus accident was abruptly given a release date last month, and it looks like they’re serious this time. Here’s the slightly surreal chance to see Anna Paquin well before True Blood, plus younger versions of Matt Damon, Mark Ruffalo, Rosemarie DeWitt and, very likely, some incredible filmmaking. (10/7)

Martha Marcy May Marlene: Who knew there was

genuine talent in the Olsen family? While Mary-Kate and Ashley may have never broken cinematic ground, their younger sis Elizabeth is a serious thespian whose work as a former cult member reunited with her family has already been showered with accolades. Sean Durkin’s direction is allegedly just as strong, and John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone) is in there, too, as the cult leader. (10/21)

Take Shelter: Jeff Nichols’ oft-excellent Shotgun Sto-

ries was one of those Amerindies that slipped through the cracks, so here’s hoping the same doesn’t happen to his follow-up. Michael Shannon again collaborates with Nichols as an Ohio family man who starts having apocalyptic visions. It’s up to current It Girl Jessica Chastain to take him at his word or steer their kids away from him. (10/21)

The Skin I Live In: Antonio Banderas heads back to

the country and director that ﬁrst made him popular with Pedro Almodóvar’s batshit horror ﬂick. Bandaras plays a surgeon who tests out an experimental skin on a kidnapped woman (Elena Anaya). From there matters escalate, but reportedly in ways more fucked-up than you could imagine. (10/28)

Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life: Eric Elmosnino looks so

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like sleazy as French troubador Serge Gainsbourg he might as well be him reincarnated. Comics artist Joann Sfar’s hagiographic biopic sports some out-there elements, like a masked, beaked alter ego that follows him around. Alas, Gainsbourg’s love of potty humor goes unmentioned. (11/11)

Melancholia: More Gainsbourg love arrives via the

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movie that caused Lars von Trier to crack jokes about admiring Nazis. Charlotte, Serge’s daughter, plays the sister of Kirsten Dunst, who won a Cannes trophy as the bride whose wedding coincides nicely with the destruction of our planet. Written during the depression that also Melancholia inspired Von Trier’s Antichrist, this may not boast talking foxes and massacred genitalia, but apparently that’s OK. (11/18) ■

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International House’s Sonic Arts Union Retrospective takes a look back at electronic music. By Elliot Sharp feedback@philadelphiaweekly.com

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In the 1960s, a group of electronic music pioneers began playfully, but rigorously, twisting knobs on homemade gadgets and realized they could create unknown, and often bizarre, sounds. The work that was created is now being shown as part of a live music and multimedia retrospective that runs from October to May at International House. The Sonic Arts Union was founded in 1966 by Alvin Lucier, David Behrman, Gordon Mumma and Robert Ashley as a collective of experimental composer-performers working in the then-budding ﬁeld of electronic music. “It was a disaster,” a laughing Lucier says about the ﬁrst SAU event held in 1966 at Brandeis University, where he was teaching. “It was incredibly noisy and messy, but afterward we decided to go on a European tour ... we had a lot of guts.” Over the next decade, SAU created what remains some of the most groundbreaking electronic music ever made, and the four have ceaselessly targeted traditional modes of performance, composition, and instrumentation. “We wanted to disrupt the reliance on conventional music ideas,” says Behrman, currently a faculty member at Bard College. “Back then you’d go to a music conservatory and only one kind of music was accepted and the rest was worthless. We conveyed that there are a million different ways to make music.” Unlike many music “collectives,” each member fervently pursued and maintained his own distinct

sonic path and they never performed as an ensemble; each wrote and performed his own compositions, oftentimes with project-specific, homemade instruments. “Gordon’s music was complex and abrasive and created with very beautifully conceived electronic systems, Robert’s was theatrical, and David’s was pure and interactive,” Lucier says. “I don’t know what mine was, but I had a wonderful time.” Though electronic instruments were emerging on the market in the mid-1960s, SAU members weren’t impressed with the mass-produced machines. “They were some engineer’s idea of lowest common denominator electronics,” Lucier says. So they began tinkering with whatever was present-at-hand, transforming lifeless electronic bits into photoresistors, oscillators, processors, generators, synthesizers, and other musicmaking devices. “It’s challenging, but their work has a real sense of joy,” exclaims Jesse Kudler, the production manager of International House and curator of the retrospective. “And they brought experimental electronic work directly to audiences, bypassing the stuffy conventions of classical performance.” International House will host more than 12 events through 2012, including live concerts by each of its founders, film screenings, panel discussions with scholars, a hands-on workshop in which participants construct electronic instruments from everyday household materials, and three concerts in which young Philadelphia-based artists present new, SAUinspired music. Chris Madak (Bee Mask), one of three local artists presenting SAU-inspired compositions in early 2012, says the collective has had a significant impact on his work. “They worked with technology in an honest, deeply engaged fashion without putting it on the pedestal of the sublime or acting as though its role can be reduced to the merely instrumental. They were always aware that technology works upon us as we work with it.” The SAU’s founders were some of the first composers to engage the thorny relationships between humans and technology, specifically how these relations can be musically articulated. Furthermore, they weren’t interested in conducting their investigations behind closed doors, or locked away in highbrow concert halls like many of their contemporaries, but instead shared their unequaled sonic treasures with live audiences. “A relationship forms between performer and audience that’s unpredictable, sometimes wonderfully positive, and it changes every time,” explains Behrman. “Especially now that everyone’s trapped behind laptops, this exchange is a precious thing ... people need to come together and collectively experience something.” ■

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Properties to be sold by Barbara Deeley., Acting Sheriff on Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 10:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE

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Ten percent of the highest bid for each property auctioned off shall be deposited in cash, certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff by each bidder when his bid is registered, provided that in no case shall less than Six Hundred Dollars ($600.00) be deposited, otherwise upon failure or refusal to make such deposit, the bidder shall lose all benefit of his bid and the property may be immediately offered again and sold unless a second bid has been registered, then, the second highest bidder will take the property at the highest bid price. Additionally, where there is active bidding, the highest bidder, and the second highest bidder, if any must post the entire amount of the cost of the distribution policy for the property at the time of sale by cash, certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff. The balance of the purchase money must be deposited in cash, certified check, attorney’s check or money order together with a Deed poll for execution by the highest bidder to the Sheriff at his office within 30 days from the time of the sale. An extension of time for an additional 30 days may be granted at the discretion of the Sheriff upon receipt of written request from the buyer requesting the same, except when a second bidder has been duly registered. Also, if the first bidder does not complete settlement with the Sheriff within the thirty (30) day time limit and a second bid was registered at the sale, the second bidder shall be granted the same thirty (30) day time limit to make settlement with the Sheriff on his second bid. Thereafter, the Sheriff shall be at liberty to return the writ to court. A second bid must be registered on any property immediately after it is sold. The second bidder must present the same amount of deposit that the highest bidder delivers to the Sheriff at the sale. An extension of time under no circumstances will be granted or honored by the Sheriff whenever a second bid is registered on a property at the sale. The first bid or opening bid on each property shall be a sum sufficient to pay all Sheriff’s costs including advertising, all taxes, water rents and municipal claims due to the City of Philadelphia. If there is no other bid price above the opening bid price, the property shall be sold by the auctioneer to the attorney on the writ at that price. The deposit by any bidder who fails to comply with the above conditions of sale shall be forfeited and the funds will be applied to the Sheriff’s cost, then to any municipal claims that the City of Philadelphia has on the property. Finally, if a balance still remains, a Sheriff’s Distribution Policy will be ordered and the money will be distributed accordingly. No personal checks, drafts or promises to pay will be accepted in lieu of cash, certified checks, attorney’s checks or money orders made payable to the Sheriff of Philadelphia County. The Sheriff reserves the right to grant further extensions of time to settle and further reserves the right to refuse bids from bidders who have failed to enter deposits on their bids, failed to make settlement, or make fraudulent bids, or any other behavior which causes disruption of the Sheriff Sale. Said bidders shall be so refused for the sale in which said behavior occurred and for said further period of time as the Sheriff in his discretion shall determine. The Sheriff will not acknowledge a deed poll to any individual or entity using an unregistered fictitious name and may, at his discretion, require proof of identity of the purchaser or the registration of fictitious names. The bid of an unregistered fictitious name shall be forfeited as if the bidder failed to meet the terms of sale. All bidders are advised to remain at the sale until after the last property is sold. The Sheriff reserves the right to re-sell any property at any time before the end of the sale, upon the successful bidders’ failure to tender the required deposit. The Sheriff reserves the right to postpone or stay the sale of any property in which the attorney on the writ has not appeared and is not present at the sale. Prospective purchasers are directed to the Web site of the Philadelphia Bureau of Revision of Taxes, (BRT) “brtweb.phila.gov” for a fuller description of the properties listed. Properties can be looked up by the BRT number – which should be cross checked with the address. Prospective purchasers are also directed to the Room 154 City Hall, 215-686-1483 and to its website “philadox.phila.gov” and to its website at http://philadox.phila.gov where they can view the deed to each individual property and find the boundaries of the property. PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DETERMINING THE NATURE, LOCATION, CONDITION AND BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPERTIES THEY SEEK TO PURCHASE. The “BRT #” refers to a unique number assigned by the City Bureau of Revision of Taxes to each property in the City for the purpose of assessing it for taxes. This number can be used to obtain descriptive information about the property from the BRT website. Effective Date: July 7, 2006

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NOTICE OF SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION The Sheriff will file in his office, The Land Title Building, 100 South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of Real Estate sold on Wednesday, March 2, 2011. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter. N.B. - For the benefit of our non-professional readers who do not understand the meaning of the letters and figures following the defendant’s names, we make the following. EXPLANATION The name first appearing in each notice is that of the defendant in the writ whose property is being sold. All Writs are Writs of Executions. The letters C.P., Court of Common Pleas; O.C., Orphans’ Court; Q.S., Court of Quarter Sessions; C.C., County Court - indicate the Court out of which the writ of execution issues under which the sale is made: S. 1941. 223. means September Term, 1941. 223, the term and number of the docket entry; the figures following show the amount of debt; and the name following is that of the attorney issuing the writ. Attention is called to the provisions of Act No.104, approved July 27, 1955, which requires owners of properties which are used, designed or intended to be used by three or more families, or of commercial establishments which contain one or more dwelling units, to deliver to the buyers of such properties a use registration permit at the time of settlement, under certain terms and conditions. Sheriff Sales are not subject to provisions of the said Act and the Sheriff will, therefore, not deliver use registration permits in connection with any sales conducted by him. Very truly yours, Barbara Deeley Acting Sheriff, City and County of Philadelphia

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Keith (Good)win, Tim Arn(old) and Dan Sch(war)tz are some of Philadelphia’s most revered folkies. They’re vets of bands that once were, namely Days Away and Unlikely Cowboy, but their defining sound now is harmonious, laid-back and homey with countrified strums and handclaps galore. Though they’re tight-knit and back acts like Anthony Green (Circa Survive) and sometimes Person L (The Starting Line), their own creativity bursts from EPs and LPs as a trio signed to the solid Sargent House (These Arms Are Snakes, Maps & Atlases). Drawing comparisons to Crosby, Stills & Nash and the Band, their sunshine-kissed sound is brilliant on feel-good tracks like “Coney Island” and “That’s Some Dream.” With a third record on its way, their set’s sure to be as solid as the catalog of indie folk they’re building.

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Explosive Head Fri., 7:30pm, Johnny Brenda’s. Loud, fast and sloppy is no way to go through life, son. Well, unless you’re a gutter-dwelling garage-punk band from South Jersey. Just a year old, Explosive Head has got riffs and attitude galore. We’re especially partial to their song “Fuckalicious.”

The Swimmers Sat., 9:15pm, Kung Fu Necktie. It’s been a minute since Philly foursome the Swimmers dropped People Are Soft, an electro/indie-pop gem replete with sparkly New Wave synth melodies, frontman Steve Yutzy-Burkey’s melodramatic, magnetic vocals (which mingled nicely with wife and singer-keyboardist Krista Yutzy-Burkey’s bright harmonies), and songwriting both sophisticated and fun. Lauded around these parts, the MAD Dragon-released album

still didn’t quite get the national attention it deserved. The foursome has been fairly quiet on the live front of late, but we imagine they’ve been hiding out in their lair crafting fresh tunes that’ll blow the last album away. This evening the Swimmers return, hopefully with some of that new material in tow.

Lo Pan Fri., 10:30pm, M Room.

There’s worse things to be obsessed with than Big Trouble in Little China, the best Kurt Russell movie ever. Named for that flick’s creepy sorcerer with the glowing eyes, Lo Pan will probably mesmerize you with their thick, thunderous stoner-psychedelia. Especially if you have green eyes.

Akua Naru & the Digflo Band Sat., 12:30pm, Girard Fest, Howard St. Stage. Hip-hop MC Akua Naru briefly lived in Philly, but currently has a fortress in Cologne, Germany. She grips the microphone firmly, spitting prudent verses about enlightenment, revolt and how crucially she rocks crowds. Her six-piece Digflo Band kicks silky headnod sonics, summoning the early-Roots and Robert Glasper’s new-jazz grooves.

Fri., 9pm, Trocadero. Long-running Swedish death-metal stalwarts Opeth have always managed to keep things interesting by frequently steering clear of the genre’s usual growls and blast beats by incorporating prog, jazz and acoustic folk textures into their epic songs. Expect plenty of long, shape-shifting tunes from their new album Heritage.

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Perhaps you’ve heard of the phenomenon known as “pine mouth,” where if you eat raw pine nuts, within a day or two it messes with your taste buds so that all food tastes kind of sour, metallic, and just plan nasty for as long as two weeks. Fortunately, new Brooklyn, N.Y., indie-folk outfit Pine Mouth’s songs don’t leave a bad taste in your mouth, unless you hate banjos and Fleet Foxes.

Turning violet Violet Fri., 12:50am, North Star Bar. “Philly-based indie band with jokes and sparkly tambourines,” reads the description on Turning violet Violet’s blog. Perhaps the five-piece may be selling themselves a little short in the complexity department. In front of the all-male backline (guitar, bass, drums), the band’s two leading ladies contribute keys, viola and even clarinet, the latter of which adds a whole other layer of melancholy to “Blue Beside Me.”

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Larry and His Flask Sat., 2:30pm, Festival Pier (West Stage). Wild, hot-footed and fancy free, Portland, Ore., sextet Larry and His Flask play punked-up bluegrass, sounding like an Appalachian Oi! Band. It’s muscular folk-punk rife with gothic theatricality and shoutalong harmonies. “There’s DNA-splattered all over our gear,” sings cancer survivor Jamin Marshall. “It’s the payment earned for the work we do around here.”

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Samiam Sat., 5pm, Festival Pier (East Stage). Samiam’s fortunes crested in the mid ’90s just as similarly-minded pop-punk/emo acts like Jimmy Eat World, Hot Water Music and Saves the Day arrived. Tight, punchy and propulsive with ringing distortion-drenched hooks, the Bay Area quintet is supporting Trips, their second album in a decade, and nearly the equal of their halcyon moment, 1994’s Clumsy.

X Sat., 8:40pm, Festival Pier (West Stage). If John Fogerty had started CCR in L.A. during the ’70s, they’d probably sound a lot like X. Forged in that moment before musical dissent codified into dogma, they were free to chase their own unique roost-punk sound, fueled by guitarist Billy Zoom’s steely, reverb-drenched surf and rockabillyinspired guitar licks, evoking a timeless, delectably familiar tone. The other part of the equation are singer-songwriters John Doe and Exene Cervenka, whose duet vocals and insistent melodies forge a catalog thick with indelible songs and (unheard) hits worthy

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The elegant chamber-pop and Americana of Philly’s Burning Beds is nothing short of a wonder, what with their symphonic-minded compositions, gorgeous male-female vocal harmonies, and wistful atmospherics. Frankly, we can listen to the XTC-flavored folk of “Ivory Towers” about 100 times in a row, but they’ll play some other great songs tonight, too.

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Local sextet the Tea Club are way into the tenets of prog: Expert musicianship, strange time signatures, long and dramatic song structures, and so on. But they also temper the meandering tendencies with solid melodies and cool psych/space-rock sounds. Bottom line: Like Radiohead? You’ll probably like these guys.

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Philly F/M Fest, the sprawling, gargantuan, epic-in-every-fucking-way four day, 14 venue, 100 artist blowout of film (F) and music (M) and Good Goddamn Times. Your best purchase value is the all-access laminate, which you can buy at 2424 Studios at 2424 E. York St. in Fishtown or online via Ticketfly.com. They’re $80 and with it you can catch a gaggle of killer locals (Hoots & Hellmouth, Birdie Busch, Toy Soldiers, Nicos Gun, Dead Milkmen, Good Old War, Reading Rainbow, Cheers Elephant, Kuf Knotz etc. etc.) international acts both new (Marissa Nadler, The Head and the Heart), and old (X, the Descendants, SamIam, 7 Seconds, Naked Raygun), a ukulele tribute band (Neutral Uke Hotel) and a DJ who wears a giant mouse head (Deadmau5). And then there are the great music-related movies which are seeing their debut in Philly. There’s an electric and tragic look at the life of Jay Reatard just before he shuffled off this mortal coil (Better Than Something: Jay Reatard, Fri., 11:15pm at Invincible Pictures Sound Stage), an obsessive documentary look into the lives of the Replacements (Color Me Obsessed, Fri., 8:30pm, Invincible Pictures), an insiders look at the glory days of Philly’s own South St. (Meet Me On South Street: The Story of JC Dobbs, Sat., 6:30pm, Invincible Pictures) and many, many more worth your precious time and even-more-precious dollar. The pages that follow include listings for all the shows and movies, a handy list of venue locations and staff picks of the shows and artists you shouldn’t dare miss. It should meet all your Philly F/M needs, but if you’ve still got an itch to scratch, head to phillyfmfest.com for more info. Now get out there, Philly, and have some goddamn fun. We’ll see you there.

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STAge Hip-Hop meets Shakespeare.

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ART New William Way exhibit examines the AIDS crisis.

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FILM Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill reconfigure baseball.

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Lindsay Buckingham

ince resuming his solo-dom in 2006, the suddenly prolific Lindsay Buckingham’s set himself up in an indie pop singer/ songwriter pad. And why not? Fleetwood Mac’s pretty, soft rock is a key genre touchstone. Buckingham’s take isn’t far removed from a Sondre Lerche or Cass McCombs album— rich but understated and elegantly crafted with subtle (but prodigious) overdubs, pretty guitar melodies, tasteful synthetic beats/keyboard swirl and the wistful vibe of autumn passing into winter. Buckingham’s third album in five years, Seeds We Sow, is the first he’s self-released, something evident in the intimacy and immediacy of these lesspolished home studio recordings. Minus the sheen, Buckingham’s astounding musicianship and skillful writing are only more apparent. chriS parkEr

Thurs., Sept. 22, 7:30pm. $30-$47. Keswick Theatre, 291 Keswick Ave., Glenside. 215.572.7650. keswicktheatre.com

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5pm. Free. Rainey Auditorium, 3260 South St. 215.573.8280. phf.upenn.edu.

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Peace Day

Tonight marks two returns from the dead. No, not Jesus and Jan-Michael Vincent’s acting career. We’re talking about the venerable building at 10th and Spring Garden that formerly housed the culinary shithole known as the Spaghetti Warehouse, but this evening gets its grand re-opening as the gorgeous new music venue Union Transfer. And we’re also talking about the reunited Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, which will christen Union Transfer with lots of fresh tunes. The heralded Philly/ Brooklyn indie outfit with the Neutral Byrne Hotel sound split up a couple years ago after the “Pitchfork effect” wore off, but they’re back with a very good new album called Hysterical, the title of which we take to mean “troubled” more than “funny.” MichaEl alaN GoldbErG 8pm. $18-$20. With Polica. Union Transfer, 1026 Spring Garden St. 215.232.2100. utphilly.com

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Philadelphia is far from the harmonious community that William Penn once envisioned it would be. Nevertheless, it wouldn’t hurt for us to at least try to be for one day. In honor of International Peace Day, schools and organizations across the area will be holding a variety of peace and nonviolence activities and events. This includes an International Student Dialogue at Penn discussing changing views on multiculturalism and cultural tolerance and two afternoon “Peace Talks” at Drexel focusing on nuclear disarmament and community rebuilding in post-conflict countries. The day will wrap up with a Peace Sing-ALong—lyrics and lemonade provided—outside the Ethical Society in Rittenhouse followed by “Bridges To Peace,” a presentation of music, poetry, spoken word and other art forms. NicolE FiNkbiNEr

Various times. Free. Various locations. 610.324.3602. una-gp.org

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ICA Free For All The Institute of Contemporary Art hosts their annual blowout party this week, and the name pretty much says it all. Rock out with a performance by lightly skuzzy, heavily shredding Philadelphia band Purling Hiss before they head off on their European tour. Or take a break from the tunes and let PennDesign MFA students show you a trick or two for crafting your very own tote bag. Round out the evening with a talk by Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner on the subject of “What is Contemporary?” We suspect it has something do with going to this event. kathEriNE rochEStEr 6:30pm. Free. Institute of Contemporary Art, 118 S. 36th St. 215.898.7108. icaphila.org.

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Hemingway’s Boat

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story of a man and his boat. A boat and her lover. Paul talks about the affair tonight at the Penn Humanities Forum. Elliott Sharp

Ernest Hemingway loved his fishing boat. It was a fine boat. He named her Pilar. She was faithful. More honest than any woman he’d ever met. She was diligent and clever. She showed no signs of fear when faced with dangerous waters. Together they chased marlin. She was steadfast. Even after many daiquiris at Sloppy Joe’s, Ernest never raised his voice. He told her about Spain. Pilar listened. He spoke on war. She agreed. She talked of storms. He recalled a lion in Kenya. Their stories became one story. Pilar grieved when Ernest died. Paul Hendrickson is a lecturer in the English Department at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written many books. His newest is Hemingway’s Boat. Paul tells Ernest’s story through Pilar’s story. It is the

DANCE

Vintage Dance Party Age is nothing but a number this Thursday night at Philadelphia’s first intergenerational Vintage Dance Party. Dance historian Bob Skiba teaches the most active history class you’ve ever seen; the syllabus contains the steps to popular swing dances like “The Big Apple,” an improv jazzy swing step created by black kids in the ’30s, the “Rusty Dusty” and the “Shorty George.” The event is aimed at the “folks who are [as] eager to teach the dances of their youth as there will be younger people who’ve come to learn some new ‘vintage’ dances,” according to GenPhilly Leadership Committee member and event coordinator Lauren Ring. Nothing like bringing the good old pieces of the past back into the present. triShUla patEl 6:30pm. Free. William Way Community Center, 1315 Spruce St. 215.765.9000. gpvintagedance.eventbrite.com

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Through the Weeping Glass The Mütter Museum, of course, is handsdown Philadelphia’s coolest athenaeum—what with its collection of arcane surgical tools, a 9-foot-long mega-colon, President Grover Cleveland’s cancerous tumor in a jar, more

skulls than a Parisian catacomb and lots more bizarre goodies. Meanwhile, Norristown-born and London-based identical twin brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay, now 64, are two of the most amazing stop-motion animators ever—their frequently dark and macabre visions influencing countless other filmmakers. So we can’t imagine that a Mütter documentary helmed by the Brothers Quay will be anything short of kray-kray. The 31-minute Through the Weeping Glass: On the Consolations of Life Everlasting (Limbos & Afterbreezes in the Mütter Museum) gets its world premiere tonight at the museum. The Quays will be on hand for a discussion about their visual feast; there’ll also be an accompanying exhibition on the making of the film. M.a.G. 6:30pm. Sold Out. Mütter Museum, 19 S. 22nd St. 215.563.3737. collphyphil.org

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23 Grace Potter and the Nocturnals + Sam Roberts Band

Grace Potter’s vivacious vocal prowess seems to teeter between the sly gypsydom of Stevie Nicks and the bluesy soul explosion of Aretha Franklin. “If I was a man, I’d make my move,” she teases on “Paris (Ooh La La)” from last year’s eponymous release. Four-piece backers the Nocturnals sling smoky guitar riffs from behind their dynamic frontwoman, who often contributes another guitar or melodic organ. Montreal’s Sam Roberts has been a staple of the Canadian rock charts since his debut in 2002, and despite never achieving the same success south of the border, his extensive touring has garnered a hefty fanbase. This year, his Band released their fourth full-length, Collider, another tidy stack of riff-laden, atmospheric dream rock. kEViN broSkY 8:30pm. $25-$28. Electric Factory. 421 N. Seventh St. 215.627.1332. electricfactory.info

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ost hip-hop’s either lyrically vacant and sonically booms, or it prioritizes wisdom over herculean beats. “Intelligent Trunk Music” is the subtitle of Stalley’s 2011 mixtape, Lincoln Way Nights. That’s what the long-bearded Ohio-based MC who recently signed with Rick Ross’ Maybach Music Group calls his style of hip-hop. On the opening cut, a voice articulates the process: lay down the track, go out to the whip, spin it, and if it doesn’t bump while fostering critical thought patterns, it’s not ready to drop. “Brain waves of intelligence is what I send out/ Still in the Cutlass doing spin outs,” a sharp-tongued Stalley spits on “Pound” above an austere sonic architecture of thumping horns and thunderous, mastodonic bass jabs. Welcome to the next level. EllIOTT ShARP

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and rhythmic, juxtaposing disparate images to forge a visual dialectic. In fact, close friend Dennis Hopper credits the retiring auteur as a major influence on how Easy Rider was edited. In addition to screening many of these pieces in their intended format, Bruce Jenkins and Michelle Silva will discuss the prolific artist’s life and work. RAYMOND SIMON 7:30pm. $7-$9. International House, 3701 Chestnut St. 215.387.5125. ihousephilly.org

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Meg Baird Philadelphia folk musician Meg Baird just delivered the best album she’s ever made. Released by Drag City, Seasons On Earth is a splendiferous book of eight original tunes and two covers that shimmer with gentle electric swirls and her enchanted, hushed vocals. In Baird’s world, happiness is always inches out of reach—blooming beyond an impassable cliff, peaking through a sunny window without tapping the glass, whimsically breezing across layers of glowing leaves, buried under the weight of illuminative snow. But she accepts the always fleeting, incomplete object and celebrates its fragments: friends, stars, rain, sharing, comfortable solitude. Tonight she works a double-shift, headlining solo and banging drums in Watery Love alongside exClockcleaner/PW contributor Richie Charles. Also playing: American Primitive guitar master Glenn Jones. E.S. 9pm. $10. With Watery Love + Glenn Jones. Johnny Brenda’s, 1201 N. Frankford Ave. johnnybrendas.com

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A 12-day art and style fete is currently sweeping through town in the most unexpected of places. The Whole Animal Gym will open its doors this week for a very different kind of well-heeled crowd. Somewhat Subconscious explores the fine line between wearable fashion and visual art. The event highlights three local artists all with a penchant for interpreting wearable art through different mediums and techniques. Stephanie Fuoco of the University of the Arts manipulates fabrics until the unexpected is reached, like her interpretation of dramatic collars made from long grass-like material. Alexandra Emeric exhibits work that features various dying techniques on natural fibers to form navajo-oriented accessory concepts. Sarah McCorriston displays her wearable sculpture work that explores the constant changes of beauty in nature. AbIgAIl bRulEY

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Artist Trading Cards Artist trading cards are exactly what they sound like: small works of art the size of standard sports/gaming cards. They’re made by hand using any sort of material you can think of. For this event, you’ll get to make and trade your own mini masterpieces with members of the Philadelphia Cartoonist Society, totally for free. “I want people to see art as obtainable and inviting on every level, not just paintings in frames,” explains PCS member Christian Patchel. He has hosted several of these art sessions around the city and has saved the hundreds of cards he’s accumulated over the years. For the no-so creative types, don’t worry—the artists will show you some cool techniques and an array of basic materials will be provided. N.F. Noon. Free. Nichols Berg Gallery, 8611 Germantown Ave. nicholsbergart.com

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25 Manayunk EcoArts Nestled just outside this polluted city, Manayunk has become a hub for sustainable living. In hopes of inspiring others to go green, they’ve put together this annual event that invites eco-minded artists, businesses and community organizations from around the area to come together and celebrate sustainable art, fashion, food and culture. Now in its second year, the festival will host a jampacked weekend of free hippie-tastic events along Main Street including an eco car show, clothing swap, kids fitness demonstrations and a slew of vendors no doubt selling a lot of art and accessories made from recycled goods. There will be live music thanks to four bicyclepowered generators powering the DJ equipment. For all you wasteful, Hummer-driving, synthetic-product-loving non-recyclers out there, this would be a good time to consider reducing your that big ol’ carbon footprint of yours. Several renown green living experts will be holding lectures and seminars throughout the weekend to show you how. N.F. 11am. Free. Main Street. 215.482.9565. manayunk.com

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26 The Humans You’re bound to recognize at least a couple of these Humans. The eclectic, experimental trio counts among its ranks multi-instrumentalist Bill Rieflin, who cut his teeth as a drummer for such industrial acts as Ministry and KMFDM and has recently been manning the

kit for R.E.M. There’s also Toyah Willcox, the veteran punk/New Wave vocalist and highly successful actress (in her native U.K., anyway). And there’s Chris Wong, who we don’t actually recognize, but we’re sure he plays a mean bass. Together, the Humans mix prog, off-kilter pop and some Kate Bush-style romantic moodiness. King Crimson guitar god Robert Fripp (Willcox’s husband) plays on the band’s engaging new album Sugar Rush, but he won’t be on hand tonight unless he’s a special secret surprise guest. Here’s hoping! M.A.g. 7:30pm, $27-$40. With Kid Savant. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St. 215.222.1400. worldcafelive.com

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27 Felice Brothers Whenever a room gets crowded like Americana the past few years, you see artists start edging away from the center. (After all when the floors gave out under electroclash and hair metal no one survived.) For the Felice Brothers this means leaving the Band-inflected roots ramble and sparse “mountain man” vibe behind. It lingers like a hardwood floor beneath their latest, Celebration, Florida. Carpeting over is a lot of folk-punk rhythms, odd samples sputtering in the background, baroque horns for cabaret mood lighting, and quick-change movements in the arrangements. It’s a little like Beck if he’d taken a Dylan fascination to see the Threepenny Opera. It gets messy. Something to be said for playing to your strengths. C.P.

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Sounding the Alarm: HIV/AIDS at 30 Years Philadelphia’s AIDS epidemic has been selected as an urgent topic of interest by Temple Gallery’s community advisory committee. The event, put on by Colours Organization, will provide crucial information paired with an introduction to the rich history of AIDS activism and LGBT culture. The event is free and features free HIV and Syphilis rapid testing in a discrete mobile unit outside the gallery. So pull up your sleeve, do the damn thing, and then use your “I got tested” sticker as a free ticket to the ensuing mini Ball. Participation in the Ball is open to everyone who wants to strut, dance and generally have a good time. K.R. 6-8pm. Free. Tyler School of Art, 2001 N. 13th St. 215.777.9144. colours organization.org

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Twelve Monkeys (1995): Here’s my crazy theory: The funniest person on the planet is secretly Brad Pitt. He has not had, nor made for himself, many chances to prove this, meaning this is really more of a notion than a rigorous hypothesis. But in his too few films where he’s overtly comic he has proven himself a supremely odd duck who could be the world’s funniest human—if he’d stop making so many “serious” movies like Babel and Benjamin Fucking Button. (He should still appear in actual serious movies like The Tree of Life and The Assassination of Jesse James.) Case in point: his absurdly alert turn as a wealthy lunatic in Terry Gilliam’s riff on La Jetée, a performance imploding with spastic movements and bizarro line readings. When accepting his Golden Globe, he thanked Kaopectate for doing “a great service to their fellow man.” See? Brad Pitt is weird. Snatch (2000): As a heavily tattooed gypsy, Brad Pitt is so indecipherable he might as well be speaking a language he made up—like Jodie Foster in Nell, only way more inspired.

Ocean’s Twelve (2004): In Eleven and Thirteen, Pitt mostly relies on cucumber cool deadpan. In Twelve, with more time to shine, he actively goofs off, ostentatiously eating food in every scene, making strange faces for Steven Soderbergh to freeze frame on and responding to a touchy question from Matt Damon with the words, “It’s not in my nature to be mysterious. But I can’t talk about it, and I can’t talk about why.”

Inglourious Basterds (2009): Pitt is clearly having the time of his life doing his finest Foghorn Leghorn accent and seeing how many “i”s he can fit into the word “oblige.”

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Moneyball (2011): This isn’t a comedy, and there’s plenty of “humanizing” scenes of him bonding with his daughter. But as renegade General Manager Billy Beane, Pitt is delightfully eccentric, delivering Aaron Sorkin dialogue with a cool idiosyncrasy that throws off every character. Inglourious Basterds More please. n

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Burn After Reading (2008): Few things make me instantly happier than Pitt’s endearing idiot bouncing back and forth, exclaiming, “I got his number!”

price range. His only option is to think outside the box, and a young numbers-cruncher named Peter Brand might be just what he’s looking for. Played by an uncharacteristically subdued Jonah Hill, this kid is obsessed with sabermetrics. A then-radical reappraisal of baseball stats pioneered by Bill James, it’s a science that leans heavily on complex mathematical formulas involving stuff like on-base percentage and … are your eyes rolling back in your head yet? Fear not, as all this (literally) inside baseball gobbledygook is served up for your consideration by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who rewrote an earlier script by Steven Zaillian, putting his trademark rapid-fire banter in the service of surprisingly sturdy and traditional underdog sports movie formulas. If you don’t think balancing a payroll budget and calculating percentage stats can be the stuff of riveting drama, remember that SorBalls of steel: Brad Pitt (left) and Jonah Hill try to save the Oakland A’s. kin recently won an Oscar for a movie about a lawsuit involving fucking Facebook. This dude can make anything compelling. Despite being one of the last bankable names in Hollywood, In tried-and-true, crowd-pleasing fashion, Moneyball pits Brad Pitt has never seemed much interested in acting like a Beane and Brand against an entire industry full of naysayMovie Star, at least not onscreen. ers and finger waggers. Baseball is a sport steeped in tradiEven his highest grossing hits—oddball anomalies like tion, which, grand as it may be, also leads to a mindset that Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds or the Coen Broththings should be done the way they’ve always been done, ers’ Burn After Reading—feel like they were only able to get simply because that’s the only way they’ve ever been done. made because Pitt is one of the most tabloid-famous people It’s not exactly an atmosphere conducive to innovation. in the universe. Who else could get financing for a film with Beane and Brand assemble what the latter describes as a title like The Assasination Of Jesse James By The Coward “an island of misfit toys,” grabbing has-been or never-were Robert Ford ? The Tree Of Life, anybody? players on the cheap and sometimes making them swap As an actor, Pitt usually tries to play against his ridicupositions. There’s a delightful subplot in which catcher Scott lous looks, often uglying it up for a role or adopting selfHatteberg (played by Parks And Recreation’s secret weapon consciously kooky accents. The Ocean’s movies are the only Chris Pratt) must suddenly learn how to play first base. time you’ll find him coasting on charm, which is a shame These guys aren’t slugging for home runs or hall-ofbecause he happens to be very good at it. fame glory, they’re just trying to get But in Bennett Miller’s Moneyball, Pitt on base. Beane cannily describes this Moneyball finally surrenders and delivers the kind of sport as “a war of attrition,” and what Grade: B+ mega-watt charismatic, Old-Fashioned Moneyball understands better than Movie Star performance we’ve all most baseball pictures is the marathon Director: Bennett Miller secretly been waiting for. nature of the season. The games go on, Starring: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright As a pal noted, “He’s playing the day in and out, but with time on your and Jonah Hill role exactly the way Robert Redford side and a slow-and-steady philosophy, would’ve, back in the 1970s.” eventually the numbers are going to Based on Michael Lewis’ best seller, start adding up. Moneyball stars Pitt as Oakland A’s General Manager Billy Capote director Bennett Miller mostly stays out of the Beane, a once-promising player who washed out young. screenplay’s way, a few regrettably artsy-fartsy flourishes Now he’s stuck trying to run a financially crippled franchise aside. Miller falls victim to the gradually expanding in a league where the big teams have gotten so rich that flashback syndrome, but makes canny use of vast, empty the smaller markets have been priced right out of compestadiums, and his sound design is chilling, Eventually he tition. An opening-title card announcing a playoff game figures out the sure bet is to just leave the camera on Pitt between the New York Yankees and Beane’s beleaguered A’s while he’s speaking fluent Sorkin-ese. At its best, which is slyly replaces the team’s names with their payroll budgets, very often, Moneyball is preposterously entertaining, as reminding us that what we’re really watching here is a battle we’re watching Beane and Brand hustling sports agents, of resources. owners and rival GMs. After losing his superstar sluggers Jason Giambi and This is a movie about the game of baseball that contains Johnny Damon at the end of the 2001 season, Beane’s surprisingly little actual baseball. It’s more like The Bad strapped for cash and there aren’t a lot of prospects in his News Bears Go To Economics Class. n

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There is a certain type of espionage picture that you just don’t see anymore. Some of us grew up watching these alsoran, long-forgotten relics during lazy Saturday afternoons. It was all a panoply of tinted sunglasses, bad sideburns

and laborious exposition. Every once in awhile, one of the mutton-chopped (always British) mulleted bastards would kill somebody, but mostly you just sat around waiting to see a flash of boob. These were the kind of low-rent pictures that couldn’t even afford Michael Caine. Gary McKendry’s Killer Elite is not a decent film by any stretch of the imagination, but it reminded me enough of crappy movies from my youth that nostalgia inclines me to give it far more credit than it actually deserves. Set in 1980—and for all intents and purposes feeling like it was written back then—the movie stars Jason Statham as a growling mad assassin suckered back into an impossible mission when his mentor (Robert De Niro, where does the time go?) is kidnapped by a vendetta-crazed, terminally ill Arabian sheik. The short version is that Statham is ordered to assassinate a bad batch of former SAS agents, but not before coaxing confessions out of them onto low-rent, period-specific audio-visual equipment. Purporting to be “based on a true story,” the picture comes from “a novel” by a notorious bad actor from Her Majesty’s spy community who was allegedly drummed out of the SAS after attempting to murder Rex Harrison on the set of Doctor Doolittle. Killer Elite is awfully silly, but it does provide the red-meat goodies of reliable badass Statham attempting to out-glower Clive Owen, here wearing a porn-star moustache and Superfly jacket, perhaps wondering where his career went so wrong, but being swarthy all the same. There are a lot of unlucky hookers and bad facial hair, and the more everybody tries to explain the plot the more impossible it becomes to parse. Meanwhile, we’ve got De Niro, who in the year when this movie was set gave a life-changing performance as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull. Now he’s half-assedly muttering one-liners and, in the movie’s most emotionally honest moment—helping himself to a giant bag of money. n

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The last film by the late Alain Corneau (Tous Les Matins de la Monde) begins with corporate VP Christine (Kristin Scott Thomas) and her assistant Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier) laughing uproariously. This is called foreshadowing: Their joy indicates they will soon be at eachother’s throats, then likely worse. Not a reel later Christine has passed one of Isabelle’s ideas off as her own. “It’s not betrayal,” Christine subsequently informs her. “It’s teamwork.” Regardless, the mousy yet furtively ambitious Isabelle can’t buy into this socialist view of a workplace where perfidy is acceptable long as it benefits the company. As the pair’s relationship crumbles even more spectacularly, Isabelle finds herself driven mad by the cut-throat grind of corporate life, soon hatching a scheme that’s at once highly implausible and a major mid-film spoiler. Whether you buy the extent to which Isabelle goes for payback is, frankly, irrelevant. The same goes for whether Corneau’s swan song has anything original to say about the world of big business, not to mention woman’s current role in the same. It doesn’t. Despite building to an eye-rolling denouement, Love Crime takes great delight in nimbly navigating through its corporate milieu, and even more glee in dealing with the aftermath of The Twist That Shall Not Be Revealed But May Be Obvious By Now. Casting is key. KST is unleashed to act alternately smitten then bitchy toward her unraveling deputy, which she once again accomplishes in comfortable French. The far more limited Sagnier, a few films into the post-nudity segment of her career, simply acts like a blank slate, all the better to sell her sudden evolution into a surprisingly cunning monster. Isabelle’s super-hush-hush scheme is clever slow-burn fun that finds an original way to twist a familiar movie gimmick, in which Isabelle attempts to circumvent an investigation by stern but clearly incompetent justice seekers. “Human beings are so complicated,” muses one such authority toward the end, all while the film itself mordantly argues for the opposite. They’re not remotely similar in quality or content, but Love Crime shares with Raúl Ruiz’s recent Mysteries of Lisbon—another final work by a sincedeceased filmmaker—a relaxed elegance that betrays a long career, not to mention transcends what is in effect some fairly dodgy material. n

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Jonah Hill is thin. You’ve likely read about the 30 pounds the Judd Apatow regular—and now Brad Pitt’s co-star in Moneyball—recently shed. But it’s even more shocking in person, doubly so if you interviewed him four years ago, when he was doing press for Superbad. The Falstaffian motormouth, genuinely and loudly excited about his newfound fame, has been replaced by someone not only thinner but more reserved. He wore a Daniel Johnston By the numbers: Jonah Hill spews statistics in Moneyball. shirt last time we met; now he sports chic duds. The new Hill is still talkative and positive, but quiet and more careful with his words. “I became recognizable when I was 21 or 22 years old,” he says. “You guys would get sick of me doing the same thing over and over again, if you’re not already. So it’s really important to diversify.” Hence Moneyball, the splashy movie version of Michael Lewis’ 2003 bestseller about Billy Beane, the Oakland A’s general manager who famously/controversially employed “sabermetrics,” a form of cold statistical analysis designed (hopefully) to produce a dynamic baseball team on a budget. Against Pitt’s charismatic if eccentric Beane, Hill—who when filming had yet to discard the weight, it should be noted—plays Peter, a composite of Beane’s math nerd accomplices, including Paul Podesta and Theo Epstein. Hill, best known as an extrovert, is the opposite: a shy wallflower prone to deliver all his dialogue in a stunned whisper. In a sense that wasn’t hard; he describes acting alongside Pitt and Philip Seymour Hoffman (as the coach), with a script by Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian, as “intimdating.” And though Cyrus was part-serious, Moneyball was his first full-on drama. The role is similar to Hill’s life in other ways. “I’ve had four Billy Beane-type experiences in life,” in which someone had “shed a light on me and [said] ‘You have something great about you, I’m gonna give you the chance to shine.’” The first of those was Dustin Hoffman, whom he met when he was studying acting at The New School and who recommended him for a small role in I Heart Huckabees. The rest are Judd Apatow (of course), Mark and Jay Duplass, who cast him in Cyrus, and Moneyball’s director, Bennett Miller (Capote). Though Hill, even the new version of him, is more confident than his Moneyball character, you can sense an affinity. “[He] was just a person in society that you come across in society sometimes that I felt hadn’t been portrayed in a movie—a guy that really blends into the wall. He’s a little Aasperger’s-y, my character, just that guy who would be doing all the crunching, the busy work.” Of course, there were plenty of differences. “I can barely count to 10, personally, but I had a statistics tutor to help me understand what I was talking about. Bennett wanted me to improvise with statistics, which was the most frustrating direction to get in preparation for a movie. I wanted to kill him. It is not easy to be able to throw out numbers and have them be legit.” Understandably, improvising didn’t prove quite as extensive in Moneyball as it does with his comedies. “The Social Network was coming out when we were done shooting. Steven Zaillian wrote Schindler’s List. So, it’s not like I was like, ‘All right, let’s take a chainsaw to this thing’ and started riffing.” But drama and comedy aren’t all that different. Hill recalls having a conversation with Miller, who asked him if was excited to be doing a drama. He said yes, but admitted there was no better feeling than standing in the back of a theater and hearing people explode with laughter. “And he said ‘Well, I bet you’re gonna like a different kind of sound after you watch this movie in the theater.’ I said “Why?” And he said “When you stand in the back of the theater and you listen to the silence and you know that the silence is them leaning forward in their chairs needing to know what happens next.’” And he was right. During the premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, Hill says, there was dead silence during the climax. “That’s what [I] was most curious to see, if 2,500 people were going to be quiet during that part in the theater. And they were, and it was really cool. A different feeling for sure.” n

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Maple Leaf Rag Sundae at Franklin Fountain, you’re quite the dessert! Tell me about it, doll! Folks are sayin’ I’m just nifty, just fizzy! Better to frequent the soda jerk than end up pinched for gettin’ splifficated at the speakeasy, my dear.

Beg your pardon, but Prohibition ended close to 80 years ago. No matter, as I always say, I’m so tasty I could give any moonshine a run for its money. Afterall, I’m named for Scott Joplin’s famous 1899 “Maple Leaf Rag”—a real hoot! I’m two scoops of homemade banana ice cream served in a maple syrup lined parfait glass, topped with maple walnuts, fresh crushed pineapple and a hefty dollop of whipped cream.

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compost; they source locally and organically where they can; even the building materials are environmentally thoughtful. The food, in general, is several steps up from what you’d expect at a chain, and a nice nod in the direction of greater attention being paid to ingredients and pedigree. Handprepared salads and wraps are raised from the realm of the huddled mass-produced masses by nothing fancier than fresh components. When these are brought together well, the results are a treat, especially given the stereotypical college diet. At $10, the Santorini salad isn’t cheap, but you get a lot for your money. All the familiar Greeky components are here—grapes, feta, forgettably bland chickpeas—and few of the pitfalls I worried about. The dressing, a cucumber basil yogurt stiffened with with a generous hit of lemon juice, was well-balanced. And the shrimp had been roasted and seasoned with care: There were nearly a dozen of them throughout, curled up like pretty pink apostrophes against their chalkboardgreen background. Named-with-a-wink, the “curry gold” salad worked much better as an assembled whole than it did on a component-bycomponent basis. Moist, velvet-textured chicken was perhaps a bit too curried, the raw beets too toothsome. The curry pineapple yogurt dressing, like the chicken, was half a step too aggressive. But taken all together, these disparate parts actually functioned well, each taking the edge off the other. The Sabzi salad was less impressive, and failed to rise above its inherent blandness despite the back-of-throat tingle of

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ONE BEdROOm 1424 PORTER, Nice 1BR, Quiet area, HW floors. $675+. No pets. 610-909-9025 15TH & SPRUCE: Beautiful Art Deco High-rise 1Bdrm Apt, Desk Attendant, HW Flrs, Updated Kitch, Onsite Laundry, Intercom Entry, Amazing Location! From $1120/Mo. 215-735-8030. Lic #219789.

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BROAD & REED: BEAUTIFUL 1Bdrm $850 INCLUDES water & heat. Call Joseph 609-217-1198

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DELAWARE AVE:, RECENT UPDATES, NEW APPLIANCES, CA, WW, WD/bldg $700+ Pets OK. Tanya 215-922-6088

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Broad St. ART 210 W Washington Sq #7NE Coldwell Banker Banker Preferred Preferred ART LOGAN SQ St #8C QUEEN VILLAGE Coldwell GRADMUSEUM HOSPITAL HILL RITTENHOUSE ART Prudential Fox & Roach PASSYUNK SQ SQ NSOCIETY Liberties 1901 Walnut 1919 MUSEUM Chestnut St. 1901 Walnut St #4C >From $499,900 BELLA VISTA 519 N 19th St $2,500,000 QUEEN VILLAGE 2401 Penna Ave #12A2 2301 Cherry St #3P 524 Christian St #Unit E 2943Captains Penna Ave 959 Lombard N Lawrence 1114 Emily 606 Way 635 St St 1821 SpruceStSt #2 Coldwell $349,000 $140-580,000 $599,000 765 S. Marvine St RITTENHOUSE SQ $599,900Banker Preferred 720 S Front St $379,900 $449,900 $615,000 Prudential Fox & Roach $525,000 $775,000 $339,900 RITTENHOUSE SQ $514,900 $659,000 $329,000 $519,500 Prudential Fox & Roach 1812 Spruce St Unit 3F Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach SOUTH PHILA Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Plumer & Associates SATURDAY 9/24/11 $368,000 Prudential Prudential Prudential 1812 Spruce St. Unit 2F $775,000 Solo Real Estate Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach 12:00-5:00PM Prudential 1335 Titan StFox & Roach Coldwell Banker Preferred SOCIETY HILL $425,000 GERMANTOWN ART MUSEUM ART MUSEUM RITTENHOUSE SQ SOCIETY HILL N LIBERTIES FITLER SQ SOCIETY HILL RITTENHOUSE SQ 11:30-1:30PM $299,000 N610LIBERTIES 452-458 W Clapier St 833 N Taney S Front St 2423 Coldwell Banker Preferred 1500 Chestnut St #11F WASH SQ WESTSt BELLA VISTA #404 AVE OF THE ARTS 121-35 WalnutStSt #206 QUEEN VILLAGESt 850 NBrown 4th StSt#6-H 2418 Delancey The Willings 1629 Waverly Passyunk GRAD HOSPITAL $375,000 $421,000 $605,999 1030 N 4th St PrudentialSqFox & Roach 440 Broad St. $2,195,000 $349,000 GRADS.HOSPITAL $519,000 $399,900 $750,000 413 S Jessup St $334,000 $595,000 813 S Darien St 523 S. Leithgow St 1833-A Christian St. 1825 S 12th St Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $393,000 >From $499,900 WASH SQ WEST Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 2101 Kimball St. Prudential Fox & Roach $495,000 $274,900 $634,900 $319,900 $350,000 Solo Real Estate Coldwell Banker Preferred 1109 Spruce St. Unit 1F Coldwell Banker Preferred RITTENHOUSE $238,900 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach EAST FALLS FISHTOWN Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE Prudential FoxSQ& Roach OLDE CITY SOCIETY HILL SOCIETY HILL $225,000 3532 Calumet St BELLA VISTA 1117 E Palmer St 749 E Passyunk Ave GRAD HOSPITAL SOCIETY HILL Coldwell Banker Preferred SOCIETY HILL 1919 Chestnut St 104 Church St #17 513 Delancey St 114 Naudain St #Unit C $364,000 $414,900 $599,000 SUNDAY 9/25/11 Coldwell Banker Preferred 724 Fulton St 1523 Rodman St 440 Lombard St WASH SQ WEST ART MUSEUM RITTENHOUSE SQ FAIRMOUNT 210 W Washington Sq #10SW 3:00-4:00PM 100-580,000 $515,000 $695,000 $334,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ Prudential Prudential Prudential 11:30- 1:00PM $344,900 Fox & Roach $399,900 Fox & Roach $575,000 Fox & Roach 410 S QuinceFoxSt & Roach 1900 Hamilton #101 608 S 16th StFox & Roach 12:00-1:00PM Prudential Fox St & Roach 886 N Bucknell Prudential Prudential Fox &StRoach 1812 Spruce St. Unit 3R $2,100,000 Prudential SOCIETY HILL Prudential FoxSQ& Roach Prudential FoxSQ& Roach 12:00-5:00PM Prudential FoxSQ& Roach $305,000 $395,000 $490,000 $599,900 $319,000 RITTENHOUSE RITTENHOUSE RITTENHOUSE Prudential Fox & Roach ART 210 W Washington Sq #7NE GRADMUSEUM HOSPITAL Coldwell Banker Preferred GRAD HOSPITAL SOCIETY HILL RITTENHOUSE Prudential Fox & Roach 1901 Walnut St #8C 1919 Chestnut St. 1901 Walnut St #4C Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential FoxSQ& Roach 519 NCatharine 19th St St $2,500,000 AVE OF THE ARTS 1817 OLD CITY 606 Captains Way 635 Lombard St 1821 Spruce St #2 RITTENHOUSE SQ $349,000 ART MUSEUM $140-580,000 WASH SQ $599,000 $599,900 Prudential FoxSQ& Roach 440 S. Broad St. RITTENHOUSE RITTENHOUSE SQ $514,900 $659,000 $329,000 $389,900& Associates Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox &StRoach 1901 Walnut St #14F 50-56 NPHILA Front St #402 1624 FairmountSt SOUTH 314 S Iseminger Plumer GRAD HOSPITAL WASH SQ WEST BELLA VISTAFox & Roach 1812 Spruce St. Unit 2F >From $499,900 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential 1922 Rittenhouse Sq Coldwell Banker Preferred $339,000 1335 Titan St $399,000 $575,000 $239,000 SOCIETY HILL $425,000 309 Captains Way 420 S Jessup St 709-11 Alter St RITTENHOUSE SQ SOCIETY HILL Coldwell Banker Preferred N LIBERTIES $990,000 11:30-1:30PM Prudential Fox & Roach $299,000 Prudential FoxSt& #206 Roach Prudential & Roach 610 S Front St Coldwell Banker Preferred Prudential Fox & Roach 1500 Chestnut St #11F WASH SQ WEST BELLA VISTA 121-35 Walnut QUEEN VILLAGE 850 N 4th StFox #6-H $489,900 $525,000 $299,900 RITTENHOUSE Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $2,195,000 $349,000 GRAD HOSPITALSQ $399,900 413 S JessupFox St & Roach $595,000 813 S DarienFox St & Roach 523 S. Leithgow Prudential Prudential Prudential Fox &StRoach 12:30-2:00PM 2032 Kimball DelanceySt.St WASH SQ WEST RITT SQUAREFox & Roach U CITY Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential SOCIETY HILLFox & Roach Prudential 2101 Prudential $495,000 $634,900 $319,900 PORT RICHMOND 1109 Spruce St. Unit 1F $3,900,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ $238,900 2038 Latimer St Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 4840 Cedar Ave 16 St James Ct #8 QUEEN VILLAGE WASH SQ WEST GRAD HOSPITAL RITTENHOUSE SQ QUEEN VILLAGE $225,000 BELLA VISTA GRAD HOSPITAL 2815 Chestnut Belgrade StSt SOCIETY Coldwell SOCIETY HILL 1919 PrudentialBanker Fox & Preferred Roach $319,900 $399,000 $574,900HILL 830 S 2nd St #Unit A 515 S. Juniper St Coldwell Banker Preferred 724 Fulton St 1523 Rodman St 716 SMUSEUM 21 St 440 Lombard St 1810 Rittenhouse 114 Monroe St ART RITTENHOUSE SQ Sq FAIRMOUNT 210 W Washington Sq #10SW 100-580,000 $188,500 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $399,900 $799,000 $344,900 $399,900 $575,000 1900 Hamilton St #101 608 S 16th St 12:00-1:00PM 886 N Bucknell St $485,000 #1402-03 $275,000 $2,100,000 Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ Prudential Prudential Fox & Roach Coldwell Banker Preferred Prudential Fox & Roach 12:00-5:00PM Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach $490,000 $599,900 $319,000 Prudential Prudential Fox & Roach $515,000 Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITALSt #1000 QUEEN VILLAGE 1737 Chestnut SOCIETY HILL BELLA VISTA Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach AVE OF THE ARTS Prudential Fox & Roach 1817 Catharine St OLD CITY RITTENHOUSE SQ 812 S Howard St ART $1,995,000 WASH SQ St 114-18MUSEUM Naudain St #Unit D 933 S 11th RITTENHOUSE 440 S. Broad St. 1:00-3:00PM RITTENHOUSE SOCIETY HILL SQ $389,900 Fox & Roach 1901 Walnut St #14F 50-56 N Front SQ St #402 WASH SQ WEST 1624 FairmountSt GRAD 314 S Iseminger St $299,900 Prudential $395,000 $565,000 GRAD HOSPITAL WASH SQ WEST BELLA HOSPITAL VISTA >From $499,900 1922 Rittenhouse Sq Coldwell Banker Preferred 2101-17 Chestnut St #1714 $339,000 $399,000 $575,000 Fox & Roach 608 Pine St $239,000 718 Rodman StWay OLDES CITY 1010 S Chadwick Prudential Fox & Roach 309 Captains 420 Jessup St QUEEN VILLAGE 709-11 Alter St St Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Coldwell Banker Preferred $990,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $149,000 $650,000 $464,900 $489,900 113 Bread St #3B2 $525,000 $299,900 $254,900 806 S. 2ND St SOCIETY HILL SQ RITTENHOUSE Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Prudential Prudential Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach $499,900 Fox & Roach 12:30-2:00PM RITTENHOUSE Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach $955,000 2032 Delancey WASH SQHILL WEST 306 Cypress Ct St RITT SQUARE SQ UGRAD CITYHOSPITAL SOCIETY PORT RICHMOND $3,900,000 111 S 15th St #1910 Prudential Fox & Roach 2038 Latimer St 4840 Cedar AveSt 2332 Catharine 16 James CtSt#8 FSBO 710StLombard $1,495,000 QUEEN VILLAGE WASH SQ WEST GRAD HOSPITAL RITTENHOUSE SQ QUEEN VILLAGE 2815 Belgrade St Prudential Fox && Roach Roach $319,900 $399,000 $574,900 $299,000 830 S 2nd St - #Unit A GRAD HOSPITAL $395,000 515 S. Juniper St $559,000 Prudential Fox 716 S 21 St 1810 Rittenhouse Sq 114 Monroe St $188,500 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $399,900 Prudential Fox & $799,000 BELLA VISTA Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 1413 Ellsworth St 1:30-2:30PM $485,000 #1402-03 $275,000 RITTENHOUSE SQ Prudential Fox & Roach Coldwell Banker Preferred Prudential Fox & Roach Roach VILLAGE 912 Fitzwater St $249,900 Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $515,000 RITTENHOUSE Prudential QUEEN 1737 Chestnut SQ St #1000 SOCIETY HILL BELLA VISTA QUEEN VILLAGE Prudential FISHTOWN PENNSPORT $499,900 Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 1921-23 Panama St 812 S Howard St $1,995,000 114-18 Naudain St #Unit D 933 S 11th St RITTENHOUSE SQ 1:00-3:00PM SOCIETY HILL 737 S 5th St 1st Fl WASH SQ WEST GRAD HOSPITAL RITTENHOUSE SQ $299,900 1119 E Berks St Prudential 112 Federal St $395,000 $565,000 Prudential Fox & Roach $1,485,000 Fox & Roach 2101-17 Chestnut St #1714 608 Pine St 718 Rodman St $239,000 OLDE CITY 1010 S Chadwick St Prudential & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE Prudential 111 S 15th StFox #1712 Prudential $395,000 Fox & Roach $550,000 Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM $149,000 $650,000 $464,900 113 Bread St #3B2 $254,900 Plumer & Associates 806 S. 2ND St SOCIETY HILL $279,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL 2401 Pennsylvania Ave Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $499,900 RITTENHOUSE SQ& Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL $955,000 WASH SQ WEST 306 Cypress Ct Prudential Fox RITTENHOUSE SQ 438 Lombard St #15B23 111 S 15th St #1910 Prudential Fox & Roach 2332 Catharine St FSBO 710 Lombard St $1,495,000 QUEEN VILLAGE Roach ART MUSEUM SOCIETY $299,000 2042 Waverly GRAD HOSPITAL $395,000 $559,000HILL $499,000 Prudential FoxSt& Roach $239,000 771 S. 2nd St, Unit H Prudential Fox & 824 N 28th Fox St & Roach 715 Pine St Fox #5 & Roach BELLA VISTAFox & Roach Prudential Prudential 1413 Ellsworth $1,265,000 1:30-2:30PM Prudential Prudential Fox St& Roach $349,900 Roach ART MUSEUM 912 Fitzwater St $249,900 $395,000 RITTENHOUSE $549,900 Prudential FoxSQ& Roach QUEEN VILLAGE Coldwell Banker Preferred FISHTOWN PENNSPORT $499,900 Prudential Fox & Roach 1921-23 Panama St 842 N Bambrey St Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 737 S 5th St 1st Fl FITLER SQ WASH SQ WEST RITTENHOUSE SQ 1119 E Berks St 112 Federal St Prudential Fox & Roach $1,485,000 $272,000 $239,000 QUEEN VILLAGE 111 S 15th St #1712 2311 South St. #302 $395,000 $550,000 912 Spruce St #5 Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM FAIRMOUNT Prudential Fox & BELLA VISTA GRAD HOSPITAL Plumer & Associates $279,000 741 S 2nd St Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach SOCIETY HILL $499,000 2401 Pennsylvania Ave $229,900 756 N. Bucknell St Roach 715 S Schell St 2023 Pemberton St Prudential Fox & RITTENHOUSE $1,150,000 SQ 438 Lombard St& Roach #15B23 Prudential Fox Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE $470,000 Roach ART MUSEUM SOCIETY HILL $389,000 $539,900 2042 Waverly $499,000 $239,000 Prudential FoxSt& Roach 771 S. 2ndBanker St, UnitPreferred H Coldwell 824 N 28th Fox St & Roach 715 Pine St Fox #5 & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL $1,265,000 Prudential Prudential Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $349,900 ART OLD CITY ART MUSEUM $395,000 $549,900 Prudential Fox & Roach 1039MUSEUM S ChadColdwell Banker Preferred RITTENHOUSE SQ 842 N Bambrey St Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 113 N Bread St #7F 1500 Mount Vernon St #2F SOCIETY HILL FITLER SQ WASH SQ WEST wick St SPRING ARTS RITTENHOUSE SQ $272,000 1935 Manning QUEEN VILLAGESt $484,500 2311 South St. #302 $225,000 912 Spruce St #5 260 S 3rd St $265,000 FAIRMOUNT 627 N 10th 307 S Smedley Prudential Fox & BELLA VISTASt GRAD HOSPITALSt $1,024,000 741 S 2nd St $499,000 $229,900 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $3,199,000 756 N. Bucknell St Prudential Fox & Roach $386,000 $529,900 715 S Schell St 2023 Pemberton St $1,150,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $470,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Roach $389,000 $539,900 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Coldwell Banker Preferred GRAD HOSPITAL Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM QUEEN VILLAGE OLD CITY ART MUSEUM 1039 S ChadRITTENHOUSE SQ SQ 2340 Fairmount St #Unit A SOCIETY HILL RITTENHOUSE PASSYUNK 136 Carpenter St #Unit B RITTENHOUSE SQ LOGAN SQ SQ 113 N Bread St #7F 1500 Mount Vernon St #2F SOCIETY HILL wick St SQ SPRING ARTS RITTENHOUSE 210 W Rittenhouse Sq #1001 1935 Manning St 261 SS 4th $449,900 834 Morris St $195,000 $484,500 $225,000 250 2126 260 3rd St St $265,000 627 NS 18th 10th St St #102 307 SAppletree Smedley StSt $949,900 $1,024,000 $3,000,000 $250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach $3,199,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & $370,000 $499,900 $386,000 $529,900 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Roach Prudential Fox & Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach ART MUSEUM QUEEN VILLAGE Roach QUEEN VILLAGE ART MUSEUM RITTENHOUSE 2340 Fairmount St #Unit A SOCIETY HILL PASSYUNK SQ 136 Carpenter St #Unit B BELLA VISTA SQ RITTENHOUSE SQ LOGAN SQ SOCIETY HILL 210 W Rittenhouse Sq #1001 852 S Front St N LIBERTIES FITLER SQ 2601 Pennsylvania Ave #304 261 S 4th St $449,900 834 Morris St $195,000 250 S 18th St #102 2126 Appletree St 817 Fitzwater St $949,900 SOCIETY HILL The Willings St #105 525 Parrish St 2506 Panama Mall $409,900 $150,000 $3,000,000 $250,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $370,000 $499,900 $725,000 Fox & Roach Prudential 530 S 2nd St#748 $1,875,000 Fox & Roach Prudential Prudential Fox & $369,900 Fox & Roach $499,000 Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Prudential Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Roach $249,900 Prudential Fox & Roach QUEEN VILLAGE ART MUSEUM Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach BELLA VISTA SOCIETY HILL 852 S Front St N LIBERTIES FITLER SQ Prudential Fox & 2601 Pennsylvania Ave #304 WASHINGTON SQ 817 12:00-2:00PM SOCIETY The WillingsHOUSE St #105 GRADFitzwater HOSPITALSt 525 Parrish 2506 Panama $409,900 $150,000 Roach HILL SYMPHONY BELLA VISTASt GRAD HOSPITALMall $725,000 236 S Hutchinson St 530 S 2nd St#748 $1,875,000 $369,900 $499,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 1429 Christian St SOCIETY HILL 400-426 S Broad St #2001 Prudential Fox & Roach 725 KimballFox St & Roach 705 S 16th StFox & Roach $249,900 Prudential Fox & Roach $400,000 Prudential Prudential $699,900 ART MUSEUMFox & $1,450,000 312 Willings Alley $369,000 Prudential $479,000 8305 Seminole Street • Chestnut Hill Prudential FoxSQ& Roach WASHINGTON 12:00-2:00PM Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL 1804 Green St #1 Roach SYMPHONY HOUSE Prudential Fox & Roach $849,000 BELLA VISTAFox & Roach Prudential GRAD HOSPITAL Prudential Fox & Roach 236 S Hutchinson St 1429 Christian St SOCIETY HILL 400-426 S Broad St #2001 $219,000 725 Kimball St 705 S 16th St Plumer & Associates $400,000 ART MUSEUM $699,900 ART MUSEUMFox & $1,450,000 312 Willings Alley $369,000 $479,000 BELLA VISTA Prudential Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ U CITY BELLA VISTA Prudential Fox & Roach 1804 Green St #1 2401 Penna Ave #17B32 Prudential Fox & Roach $849,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 750 S Marvine St Roach 1901 Walnut St #18A 4527 Sansom St 624 Kenilworth St SOUTH PHILA $219,000 Plumer & Associates $399,000 ART MUSEUM $679,900 $1,200,000 BELLA VISTA $479,000 Prudential Fox & 1717 S Mole St RITTENHOUSE SQ U$364,000 CITY BELLA VISTA Prudential Roach 2401 PennaFox Ave&#17B32 Prudential FoxSt& Roach PORT RICHMOND 750 S Marvine Roach Prudential & Roach 1901 WalnutFox St #18A Prudential FoxSt& Roach Prudential Fox &StRoach 4527 Sansom 624 Kenilworth SOUTH PHILA $139,000 $399,000 $679,900 2710 E IndianaSt $1,200,000 $364,000 $479,000 1717 S Mole St Plumer & Associates Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach GRAD HOSPITAL PORT RICHMOND Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach RITTENHOUSE SQ $189,900 $139,000 Society Hill SOCIETY HILL BELLA VISTA 2710 E IndianaSt 1741 Christian St Plumer & Associates Prudential Fox & 2032 Naudain St 206 Gaskill 323 S 2ndHILL St #8B 706 Clymer St GRAD HOSPITAL RITTENHOUSE SQ $189,900 Society Hill St SOCIETY BELLA VISTA $399,000 Roach $669,000 1741 Christian St $1,199,000 $349,900 $469,900 Prudential Fox & 2032 Naudain St 206 Gaskill St 323 S 2nd St #8B 706 Clymer St WASH SQ WEST Prudential $399,000 Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Roach $669,000 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach $1,199,000 $349,900 $469,900 929 Clinton St. #2R WASH SQ WEST Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach 929 Clinton St. #2R Meet the Designers Thurs, Oct 6th • 7-9pm $435,000 ART MUSEUM RITTENHOUSE SQ 1:30-3:00PM Symphony House VILLAS AT PACKER PARK QUEEN VILLAGE $435,000Banker Preferred ART MUSEUM Coldwell RITTENHOUSE SQ 1:30-3:00PM Symphony House VILLAS AT PACKER PARK QUEEN VILLAGE 1717 Spring Garden #Unit A 1901 Walnut St#3B Coldwell Banker Preferred 400 S Broad St #1408 2126 Verona Dr 935 E Moyamensing Ave 1717 Spring Garden #Unit A 1901 Walnut St#3B 400 S Broad St #1408 2126 Verona Dr BELLA 935 E Moyamensing Ave $399,000 BELLA VISTA VISTA $649,000 $974,900 $349,000 $464,500 $399,000 $649,000 $974,900 $349,000 $464,500 717 SS Warnock Warnock St St FITLER SQ SQ 717 FITLER Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach Prudential Prudential Fox Fox && Roach Roach Prudential Prudential Prudential Prudential $439,900 $439,900 RIVERPARK CondominiPlumer & ums: QUEEN GRAD HOSPITAL HOSPITAL ART MUSEUM MUSEUM SOCIETY HILL HILL WASH SQ SQ WEST WEST QUEEN VILLAGE VILLAGE GRAD ART SOCIETY WASH Associates Associates 251 129 1814 837 1125 The 251 S.24th S.24th St, St, #A #A 129 League League St St #2 #2 1814 Catharine Catharine St St 837 NN 27th 27th St St 1125 Spruce Spruce St St #D #D The Willings Willings St St #402 #402 $569,000 $349,000 $395,000 $635,000 $450,000 $907,850 $569,000 $349,000 $395,000 $635,000 $450,000 $907,850 Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Bryant & Wilde Realty Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Bryant & Wilde Realty Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach Prudential Fox & Roach

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AVE OF THE ARTS 440 S. Broad St.

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A Spectacular Show House In Historic Chestnut Hill

10TH & SNYDER 2 BDR, 2nd flr., renovated $600+ utilities. Good Credit only. 410-818-7271

MANAYUNK: Main St 2nd flr. Large 1BR, W/W crpt, DW, WD, CA. $745+. Call 215-432-4695 between 9am-11pm.

1225 Panama: $2000/mo 2BD/1.5BA, custom kit, garden, fireplace, s/s appl. CALL MIKE MCCANN, PRU FOX & ROACH 215627-6005/215-440-8345

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: Completely Renovated Two Bed-Two Bath apartments, Central Air, Granite Countertops in kitchen, State of the Art kitchen. MUST SEE TO APPRECIATE! Great Light, Hardwood Floors, High Ceilings, Plentiful Closet Space. $3,300.00-$3,600.00 per month. Call to Schedule an Appointment 215-735-5757 OR E-mail: DelanceyPlace@aol.com

16TH & NAUDAIN: Charming 2BR Trinity home, HW floors, C/A, Shared courtyard, WD, Basement. AVAIL SEPT! $1,275/mo+. MSRE, 215-925-RENT(7368), www.MichaelSingerRealEstate.com

RITTENHOUSE SAVOY 2BR 1BA, Rec renovated, New flrs/kitchen, AC. 24hr doorman. $2000/mo, Incl all utils/Cable. George Gay RE, 215-563-6724

5XX SHUNK ST. 2 BDR, 2nd flr., HD/Flrs. $775 mo + utilities. 215-988-9558

SO.BROAD ST. SPACIOUS 2BEDRM. 1BATH, ALL APPLIANCES/ WASHER/DRYER IN UNIT CARPET/GAS HEAT/AC WINDOW CONVEN. TO TRANS/SHOPPING/SPORTS COMPLES. NO PETS. $975/MO.+UTILS. CALL 215-755-6900.

OLD CITY (104 Chestnut/2nd Fl) Lg. 1 Bedrm, 1 Bath, Approx. 1300 s/f, tall windows, view of BF Bridge, high ceiling, carpeted, c/a, gas heat, d/w, g/d, w/d. $1160+/Mo. Avail. October. 215-627-4414. OLD CITY (108 Market/2nd fl.) Loft apt. w/Separate bedroom. Overlooking BF bridge. High ceilings, Wood floors, WD, Gas heat. $1050/mo+. 215-627-4414 RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: ONE BEDROOM APARTMENTS available mid-September Great light, Hardwood floors, High ceilings. Plentiful closet space. $1,700.00 - $2,000.00 per month. STUDIO APARTMENT available mid-October 2011, $1,500.00 per month. Call to Schedule an Appointment 215-735-5757 or E-Mail: DelanceyPlace@aol.com

EAST FALLS: BIG 2BD apts available! Hardwood or carpet, new appliances, private deck, free parking! Quick ride to Center City/ Manayunk. Call Dana 267-994-0804.

RITTENHOUSE: Modern Apt Large 1BR, 1bath, HW flrs, C/A/H, WD, & more. $1395/mo+, 215-336-8920

OLD CITY (6 S.Front St.) 2BR or Office combo. Overlooks BF Bridge & Del River. High ceiling, WD, DW, GD, CA, Gas heat, Tiled bath & Kit. $1195/mo+. 215-627-4414

THE ROOSEVELT (2220 Walnut Street) - Beautifully renovated apts. in the RITTENHOUSE SQUARE AREA of Philadelphia. Studio’s starting at only $765/mo. and one bedrooms starting at only $965/mo. Call 215-640-8880 for an appointment.

N.LIBERTIES: 2BR, AC, HW flrs, Intercom, FP, GD. $900/mo+. 304B W.Wildey. 610-358-0723

POINT BREEZE AREA: 19xx Pierce 2BR TH, CA, WD, DW & More. $950/mo+. 215-922-3910. mcolaizzo@comcast.net

office Space ImmedIate occupancy 404 to 6,152 square feet in the boutique PSFS bank building on the corner of 7th and

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THE PAPERMILL- Community of Artist. 2825 Ormes St. Affordable Artist Studios staring at $100 for 130 sf. Four large floors of open or private studio space for Painters, Sculptors, Dance, Theatre, or Creative companies. A community of artist practicing their talents in custom sized studio workspaces. Short term, inexpensive rental of theatre and gallery spaces. Join our group on Facebaook for updates on our events and gallery spaces. Contact Wulfhart Management Group: Karyn 215-687-8391 or karyn@wulfhartmanagementgroup.com

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GRADUATE NEIGHBORHOOD bancroFt green 706-726 s. bancroFt street 9 Homes sold. ONLY 2 LEFT. 11 Award Winning Sustainable 3BR/2.5bth Homes. ONLY 2 LEFT. Bestof Philly Green Architect. STOP WASTING $1,000’s/yr. on UTILITIES. Amazing finishes, 10-yr Tax Abte. Spectacular roof patios. $510,000

penn center house, #1422 neW prIce (1900 JFK) 1BR w/renov. Kitch. 24-hr dr person, Pool & more. Co-op. $72,900

BEllA VISTA 715 s. schell street brand neW lIstIng Renov. 2BR/2bth TH w/fin. Bsmnt, open plan & Exc light. Patio & deck. HW flrs. Gran&S/S Kitch. Beautiful baths. Best locat. Meredith Catchment. $389,000

SOcIETy HIll 700 locust street, #a1 Perfect 2BR/2bth loft—Amazing sustainable features. 14’ ceil. & huge windows-overlooking Wash. Sq. Impressive open kitchen, dining & living area. HW Flrs. FP. PRKG, great light, amazing volume. Designed by Carl Massara. $995,000 440 lombard street brand neW lIstIng 4BR/2.5bth TH in mint condition. On-site PRKG. Deck & lovely ct. yrd. Amazing Light. HW Flrs. Gran&S/S Kitch. Great locat. in McGall. $575,000

724 Fulton street neW prIce 3BR/1.5bth TH on delightful block. Spacious w/amazing light. Move-in cond. w/Character. Back Patio. Overlooks lovely park. New wndws, roof, flrs, etc. Meredith School. $334,900 FISHTOWN 1425 n. 4th street Clean shell. 2-3 blocks to Piazza & Lib. Walk. $114,900

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959 N Lawrence-Unique ultra modern 3 br/3.5 ba twnhse,deck,garage,beaut flring,roof deck. 113 N Bread ##7F-Lovely 2 br/2 ba condo Lr/DR,kit,granite,brkfst bar,cherry wd flrs + blcny 525 Parrish Street-3 bdrm,1.5 ba home w/2 C prkng,Lr/Dr/Kit combo,hw flrs,fin bsmt,lrg garden. 38 N Front Street #2G-Fully renov in 07,1 br w/walk-in closet,wd flrs,high ceil,exposed brk.

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2534 Brown Street-Macos Builders New from top to bottom! 3Beds/2.5B Viking Kitchen The Works 753 N Ringgold Street-In Sweet Spot of Fairmount 3Br/2.5B renovated home w/den deck grdn & grge 2340 Fairmount #Unit A-3 br/2.5 ba newer construction twnhs condo,1 car prkng,fam rm,hw flrs,blcny 2401 Penna Ave ##17B32-2 br,2 bth,hi-flr,24/7 doormanm,prkng avail,facing Prkwy & Art Museum 824 N 28th Street-3BR/1.5B new e-n-kit w/ss app fin base newly reno patio high ceil wd fl c/a 2022 Green Street #2-2br/2b bi-level spacious condo in fairmount w/roof deck 804 N Bucknell Street-2 Br/1 Ba-2-story townhouse,hw flrs,exposed brk,updated kit w/granite & SS. 1804 Green ##1-Quiet 1 BR on picturesque blk,wd-burning fpl,wd flrs,granite/SS,3 piece bth 2601 Pennsylvania #803-Handsome & Affordable studio w/new kit & bath & sleeping alcove 2601 Pennsylvania #305-Upgraded Corner Studio, New Kitchen, Ceramic Bath, Gym, Doorman

272 S 23rd #Unit A-Tri-level condo-3 br/3.5 ba,C/A,fpl,hi ceil,hw flrs,mstr suite w/marble ba.

$625,000

822 S. Swanson-Single fam used as duplex,3 bdrm,3.5 ba,C/A hrwd flrs,2 dks,garden.

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$439,900

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335 Christian Street-3BR/3.5BA QV Mansion w/ detail & character,dk,grdn + 2 Car parking. 721 S American-3 br + den,2.5 ba,chef’s kit,hw flrs,fp,fin bsmt,grdn + parking. 795 S 3rd Street-Corner prop,1 st flr has tenant,2nd & 3rd flr lrg sunny 1 bd apartments. 522 Queen Street-Rehab 3 br + media rm,2.5 spa ba,hrwd flrs t/o,2 fp’s,deck + outdoor space 112 Fitzwater Street-Designer home,2 br + den,2.5 ba,great solarium rm,hw flrs,fp,grdn,deck. 852 S Front Street-Very lg 4 br/2 ba w/separate shell trinty, Lrg EIK,granite,SS,lg closets. 236 S Hutchinson-Recently refurbished 2 br/2.5 ba home w/deeded grg prkng,fpl,pine flrs. 628 S Orianna Street-2 Bdrm 2 Bth, Roof Deck, Meredith Schl, Fireplace, C/A 129 League ##2-Beautiful 2 br/1 ba w/1 car prkng,granite & SS kitchen,private deck. 725 Kimball-Terrific 3 br/1 ba home w/new kit,roof,hw flrs,4 yr old HVAC system. 720 S Front Street-2 Bdrm + den,dressing rm,spa bth,hrwd flrs,Eik,roof garden w/river views. 125 Kenilworth Street-3 br + den,hw flrs t/o,orig wood work,lrg EIK,non working fpl,lrg grdn. 709-11 Alter Street-3 BR/1.5 BA Corian/Granite Kit, SunRoom, Patio, Roof Deck, Garage 812 S Howard Street-Total rehab,2 br/lrg ba,grt Eik,hrwd flrs t/o,bsmt & garden. 623 “A” S American-Designer quality,beautiful facade,many orig features,2 bdrm + grdn in front 136 Carpenter #Unit B-Great price for a beautiful trinity w/a new kitchen & new hw floors.

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WASHInGTOn SqUArE WEST 1001 Lombard-Refinished end-unit 3Br/2Ba,Lr w/fpl,Kit W/granite,SS applns & Island. 802 Locust Street #201-Spectacular and renovated 3 bedroom/2.5 bathroom with one car parking 1206 Addison Walk-Gorgeous 3br/2.5 bathroom town home w/chef’s kit 2 fireplaces and lrg patio 914 Spruce Street #9-2 br/2 ba unit,12’ ceilings,hrwd flrs,fpl,newer kit,1 car prkng. 718 Rodman-Lovely 3 br + den,2 ba home w/prkng,LR,DR,hrwd flrs,fp,EIk,C/A. 1225 Panama Street-Impeccably restored 2 br/1.5 ba,ctm kit,pine flrs,wd fp,exp brk + garden. 1130 Spruce ##3B-Renov kitchen and bath,fireplace,private deck,low condo fees,add’l storage

$699,000 $689,000 $490,000 $469,900 $464,900 $449,900 $186,000

ArOUnD TOWn 1100 S Front Street-Invest Opportunity, Restaurant on 1st Flr,Bi-level 4 bdrm apt on 2nd/3rd. 3509 Prima Court-5 Br/3.5 Ba,Lr,Dr w/hrwd flrs,updated kitchen w/granite & SS applns 2210 S Broad Street-Discover the charm of this impressive 3-bedroom townhome! Security system. 3210 DaVinci Drive-3 bd/2.5 ba,flr to ceiling wndws on 1st flr,kit w/granite & SS applns 1114 Emily Street-N/C-3 Br/2.5 Ba,hardwood floors,Lr,Dr,Cook’s kitchen + garage. 3106 S 19th Street-Outstanding 3BR/2BA townhome. Family room. Deck. 1107 S 3rd Street-Total rehab LR w/hardwood flr,contemporary kit,3 bdrm/2 full ba. 931 Morris Street-Great 3 bedroom,1 bath townhouse in Passyunk Square. 1922 S Jessup Street-Rehab 2 bedroom,1 bath,kitchen w/granite and stainlees steel appliances.

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Triplex Open Floor Plan

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1 Bedroom 1 Bath $349,500 $225,000

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Spacious State of Townhome the art Loft 2 Bedrooms 2.5 Baths Condominium 2 Bedrooms 2 Baths $396,000 $489,555

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WASHINGTON NORTHERNSQUARE Fabulous Condominium LIBERTIES Walkers Paradise! 2 Bedrooms 2.5 Baths 1 Bedroom 1 Bath $409,900 $269,900 MLS 5877920 MLS 5744269

$259,900 $459,000

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5,000 sq ft, 5 bedroom, 3 full bath plus 2 half bath Colonial on a 85x150 lot. This new home includes a Master suite with full bath, separate office/study, open kitchen and family room with screened porch off family room. Still time to pick finishes! Call Jim or Lori for details.

$1,200,000

4 bedroom, 3 full bath plus 2 half bath 3,200 sq ft on a large lot.This new home includes a Master suite with full bath, detached 2 car garage, open kitchen and family room with an estimated completion at the end of October. Call Jim or Lori for details.

$849,900

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$1,290,000

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1514 KATER ST NEW LISTING! Spectacular renovation by Michael Murtha, 3br, 3b, garage, garden & deck, tax abate pending

411 S 3RD ST SOCIETY HILL Meticulous light-filled Federal restoration, 4br, 3.5b, garden, 1 yr parking

$649,000

$1,335,000

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519 N 19TH ST NEW LISTING! OpEN SuNDAY 9/25 11:30-1 pM Historic renovated Victorian 5br, 2.5b, +/-2600sf, granite & marble kitchen, finished basement, h/w flrs

312 WILLINGS ALLEY OpEN SuNDAY 9/25 12-2 pM Stunning 3 level I. M. Pei corner townhouse, 2/3 br, den, 2.5b, on courtyard, PARKING!

$849,000

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717 S WARNOCK ST NEW LISTING! OpEN SuNDAY 9/25 1:30-3 pM Spacious 3br, den, 2.5b, f/p, beautiful details

$439,900

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737 S 5TH ST, 1ST FL NEW LISTING! OpEN SuNDAY 9/25 1:30-2:30 pM NY style loft space, 1br, modern kitchen, big yard

1717 S MOLE ST NEWBOLD OpEN SuNDAY 9/25 12-2 pM Rehabbed 2 br, 1b, stunning kitchen, h/w flrs

$239,000

$139,000

Call Viv Gilliam

$599,900

Call Trish Kelly

Call Leon Aksman

CENTER CITY NEW CONSTRUCTION

1435 Bainbridge St Artisan 2! Bold contemporary 4br, 3.5b, +/-4000sf, elevator, chef’s kitchen, 2 panoramic decks, 2 car garage, 10 yr tax abatement............................$1,399,000 1512 Melon St, Fairmount New construction, 3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, wood flrs, garage, basement, 2 car parking .............................. $599,000 1201 & 1203 Mt Vernon St & 608 N 12th St Spring Arts Spacious 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, h/w flrs, finished basement, tax abatement 12th st w/garage. ..................................................$399,900-$414,900

SOCIETY HILL/QUEEN VILLAGE/WASH WEST

411 S 3rd St Meticulous light-filled Federal restoration, 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, garden, 1 yr parking ......................................................$1,335,000 1040 Irving St 4 bedroom, 3 bath, den with wet bar, cherry flrs, 3 balconies, roof deck, yard, elevator, 2 car garage, tax abatement ........$1,240,000 312 Willings Alley Stunning 3 level I.M. Pei corner townhouse, 2/3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths on courtyard, PARKING ...................................... $849,000 204 1/2 S 3rd St Spacious contemporary, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, f/p, patio, deck, secure deeded parking ................................................... $749,000 110 Lombard St Spacious 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, h/w flrs, f/p, deck, courtyard, garage parking .................................................................. $739,900 731 S 7th St Renovated 3 bedroom, 2 bath, +/- 2700sf, h/w flrs, family/media room, yard, incredible roof deck, Meredith School district..... $675,000 104 Christian St Stunning 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath custom finished home, 3 f/p, h/w flrs. 2 car parking w/garage ......................................... $649,500 705 S philip St Dramatic 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath contemporary, h/w flrs, f/p, roof deck w/ city vus, new chef designed kitchen, deeded gated parking, Meredith School district ............................................................................................................................................ $573,500 400-416 S 2nd St #402 Beautiful 2 bedroom,3 bath condo, patio, shared courtyard, 1 yr parking ............................................................ $519,000 200 Lombard St #4 Abbotts Sq Townhouse, Newly redone, 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath, patio, parking available, mint! .............................. $499.000 105 A Lombard St Spacious contemporary townhouse, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, patio great for entertaining, 1 yr paid parking ................... $399,000 Abbotts Sq, 530 S 2nd St #530 Spacious corner 1 br, 1.5b, +/- 1,000sf, balcony ............................................................................... $299,000 757 S 5th St 1st flr NY style huge loft space, 1 bedroom, modern kitchen, big yard .................................................................................... $239,000 625-33 Christian St #3A Sunny corner 1BR with loft space, +/- 864sf, 1 car parking .............................................................................. $229,000

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1914-16 Rittenhouse Sq Landmark property, 5 combined lots, over 6,000sf footprint, great opportunity for development or magnificent resididence ................................................................................................................................................................... $4,750,000 1514 Kater St Spectacular renovation by Michael Murtha, 3 bedrooms, 3 baths, garage, garden & deck, tax abatement ........................ $649,000 2111 Fitzwater St Renovated 4 bedroom, 2 bath, huge yard, deck w/city view, 1 yr paid parking ......................................................... $514,900 2020 Walnut St #7E, Wanamaker House 2 bedroom suites with full baths, eat-in kitchen +/- 1198sf .............................................. $499,900 1727 Fitzwater St #A, Coventry Ct 2 bedroom, open flr plan, garage .............................................................................................. $399,900 Residences at the Warwick #1901, 1701-15 Locust St 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo, +/- 677sf ...................................................... $369,900 2014 Carpenter St Beautiful new rehab, 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, +/-1200 sf, finished basement, rear patio, tax abatement ..................... $349,900 parc Rittenhouse #1505, 219-29 S 18th St 1 bedroom, 1 bath condo, +/- 697sf .......................................................................... $339,900 1647 Latona St 3 bedroom, 2 bath, large lot. Needs updating ..............................................................................................................$89,900

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519 N 19th St Historic renovated Victorian, 5 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, +/- 2600sf, granite & marble kitchen, fin. basement, h/w flrs .......... $599,900 2610 parrish St 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, garage front, beautiful garden, pristine! ................................................................................. $449,000 782 N 27th St Newly rebuilt designer home, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths finished basement........................................................................... $375,000 1721 Wallace St #103 Spacious 3 bedroom, 2 bath condo, +/- 1630sf, h/w flrs, great outdoor space, tax abatement .......................... $300,000 2601 pennsylvania Ave #709 2 bedroom, 1 bath, new kitchen, refinished floors, parking .................................................................. $259,900 2601 pennsylvania Ave # 314 Bright 1 bedroom, 1 bath, updated kitchen & bath, north exposure ..................................................... $199,000

OLd CITY

22 S Front St #701 2 bedroom, 2.5 bath penthouse condo, +/- 2500sf, private roof deck, 2 car deeded parking .............................. $1,290,000 115-119 Cuthbert St A & B The Chocolate Factory Dramatic bi-level office condos with live-work space. ...................................................... ............................................Unit B with gated parking +/- 2300sf $799,900 • Unit A +/- 1900sf $579,900 • Both Units $1,377,000 320 Race St “E” Penthouse loft condo, 2bedrooms, 2baths, incredible views www.320racest.com ...................................................... $319,000 50-56 N Front St, #103 2 bedroom, 2 bath multi-level, modern condo with private street entrance & shared roof deck ........................ $319,000

LOGAN SQUARE

100 N 22nd St #135, The Arches Dramatic upper unit, light filled, 3br, 2.5b, balcony, great storage, garage parking, red. .................. $450,000

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UNIVERSITY CITY

4507 Sansom St Rehabbed Victorian, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, den, roof deck, front porch, basement, 2 car parking ............................. $369,900 4007 powelton Ave Spacious triplex, separate meters ...................................................................................................................... $270,000 351 S 47th St B103, Garden Court Condos Huge 1 bedroom, 1 bath, h/w flrs, +/- 1179sf. f/p, pool, gym ..................................... $174,900

BELLA VISTA

717 S Warnock St Spacious 3 bedrooms, den, 2.5 baths, f/p, beautiful details ....................................................................................... $439,900

NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN

1012 N American St New rehab, modern 3 bedroom, 2.5 baths, bamboo floors, glass railings, rear yard, roof deck ................................... $399,900 1326 E Susquehanna Newly renovated designer home, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, +/- 2000sf, yard, cook’s kitchen .................................. $359,900 2314 E Huntingdon St New Construction, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, h/w flrs, deck, patio, tax abate ....................................................... $349,000 2221 Memphis St, Fishtown, Remodeled Craftsman home, 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, den, gourmet cook’s kitchen, patio, yard ................. $329,500 3427 Livingston St, port Richmond Newly renovated 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths ................................................................................. $119,000

CENTER CITY SOUTH

1650 Ellsworth St, Beautifully rehabbed Victorian, 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, h/w flrs, yard, original details .................................................. $309,000 2511 S Lambert St, Girard Estates, Large twin, 4 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, front & back porches, yard ...................................................... $309,000 1622 S Camac St Classic 3 bedroom with original details, new kitchen & bath, wood flrs, yard ................................................................ $299,000 1309 S Reese St, Jefferson Sq Desirable 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath, hi ceilings, eat-in kitchen, basement, large garden, garage, tax abate ...... $299,900 1626 S Iseminger St Fabulous spacious 3 bedroom, 1 bath, h/w flrs, patio .............................................................................................. $259,900 1222 Mollbore Ter, Marconi park E 3 bedrooms, 1 bath, h/w flrs, enclosed front porch, terraced park view, back yard ........................... $232,500 1614 S Lawrence St Rehabbed 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath, bamboo flrs, tax abate ........................................................................................... $224,900 819 Moore St, passyunk Sq 3 bedrooms, 1.5 baths, large kitchen, garden ............................................................................................. $199,900 519 Titan St Expanded trinity, 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, back garden .......................................................................................................... $180,000 1105 Mifflin St Cute 2 bedroom, 1 bath, c/a............................................................................................................................................. $169,900 1630 S Lawrence St Updated 3 bedroom, 1 bath, yard, near park ............................................................................................................ $167,000 2315 S 8th ST 3bedrooms, 1.5 baths ................................................................................................................................................ $156,000 1717 S Mole St, Newbold, Rehabbed 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, h/w flrs .................................................................................................. $139,000 2537 S Carroll St Elmwood, 3 bedroom, 1 bath, front porch house, large rear yard .............................................................................$85,000

MAIN LINE

277 Cheswold Lane, Haverford Stunning 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath estate on 2 beautifully landscaped acres, +/- 5962sf, pool & poolhouse, 3 car garage, prime location ..................................................................................................................................................................... $2,875,000

COMMERCIAL & INVESTMENT

501 S 12th St Professional Office space, over 20,000 sq ft zoned for medical and /or legal offices. 16 deeded parking spaces .......... $4,999,900 1935-37 Chestnut St 9 apartments, 2 commercial spaces, separate utilities, 7 parking spaces ....................................................... $3,350,000 1100-1118 E passyunk Ave (at Washington Ave) +/-8500sf, 3 entrances, also 3 story house and 2 garage bays................................. $3,000,000 117-119 South St Fully equipped bar/restaurant with liquor license +/- 10,000 sq ft plus 3 one bedrooms apartments .................... $2,300,000 118 N 3rd St, Minima Loft Bldg., Full floor 1 & 2 bedroom condos & 3 level commercial space, 2 parking spaces .......................... $2,200,000 384 W Lancaster Ave, Wayne Well-known Main Line bar/restaurant with license & parking ............................................................. $2,600,000 115-119 Cuthbert St A & B, The Chocolate Factory Dramatic bi-level office condos with live-work space. Unit B with gated parking................. ..............................................................................Unit B +/- 2300sf $799,900 • Unit A +/- 1900sf $579,900 • Both Units $1,377,000 1248-50 N Front St. Corner property in the Fishtown entertainment district, +/-1800sf, bi-level, full basement, liquor license available . $850,000 410-412 Monroe St Unique opportunity. Triplex with +/- 3,000sf stable attached, Great potential! ....................................................... $699,000 380 W Lancaster Ave, Wayne Commercial Building ......................................................................................................................... $695,000 507 S 2nd St Professional office or retail store plus 3 bedroom, bi-level apartment ............................................................................. $895,000 3025 Dickinson St Grays Ferry +/- 12,000sf, warehouse with +/- 23,000sf of fenced blactop............................................................ $795,000 pennsport Approx. 4000 sq ft, clear span/floor, many uses ................................................................................................................. $649,000 1725-31 S 25th St +/-12,000sf garage/warehouse with 4,000sq ft parking lot .................................................................................. $595,000 701 W York St Former school building, 4 floors, ready for development................................................................................................ $499,900 2229 E Huntingdon St 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, deck. First floor front commercial space, zoned C1......................................................... $299,900 3213 Frankford Ave 3 story, +/-21,000 sq ft industrial warehouse with elevator, 2 loading docks, zoned G2 ........................................ $299,500

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1419 N. Hollywood St. Great rehab in the up and coming Brewerytown! 1601 Spring Garden St. Unit G114 1BR/1BA Condo in Center Spring Garden area. Handicapped accessible. 792 N Pennock St. Unit 1 Renovated bi-level 2 bd condo w/private yard. Fully permitted rehab. 2312 Brown St. Multi-unit great for owner occupant or Investor! Both units feature modern kitchens & baths. 756 N. Bucknell St. 3bd/3ba, h/w flrs t/o, open layout, C/A, Tax Abmt, High Ceilings, Beautiful Street!

$60,000 $123,000 $239,000 $365,000 OPEN HOUSE $470,000

1352 E. Susquehanna Ave. Beautifully Renovated 3bd/2.5ba, Lrg Master Suite w/Roof Deck & CC skyline views 2312 East Huntingdon St. Great Investment Opportunity – own a Triplex in the heart of Fishtown! 1240 E. Montgomery Ave. REDUCED! 3bd/2ba, 3stry new cons, hdwds t/o, 1632sqft, granite/SS, must see! 935 N. Randolph St. 4bd/1ba impeccably maintained & well appointed home – a NoLibs must-see 1241 Buttonwood St. Hot NoLibs area! Ready for development! 336 Fairmount Ave. Gorgeous nearly new construction 3 bed, 2.5 bath, deck, finished bsmt w/tax abatement and parking! 978 N. Leithgow St. Split Level TH features 3bd/3.5ba & convenient 1-car garage parking

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1239 S. Carlisle St. This newly renovated 3 br hm along Avenue of the Arts has it all, take a look today! $249,900 626 S. 16th St. #3, Beautiful bi-level 2bd/2ba condo Tax Ab, gorgeous roof deck – panoramic views of city, upgraded $354,900 1901 Walnut St. #14C, Beautiful 2bd/2ba CO-OP right on Rittenhouse Square $359,000 1616 Naudain St. REDUCED! Great house on quiet block. Lovely 2 bedroom 2 bath with patio. Hi-eff hvac. Walk to CC. $399,900 1912 Waverly St. Reduced! Charming historic home offers 2br/2ba, garden, fab kitch w/heated floors $409,000 219 S. 18th St. #412 Pet friendly 927 sqft, 1br Parc Rittenhouse condo, pool/gym $475,000 440 S. Broad St. 1, 2, and 3br luxury condos, 7 yrs left on tax abatement, garage parking available, pool fitness & luxury amenities incl., in condo fees, 1 yr builders warranty OPEN FRI, SAT, SUN 12-5PM $499,900 1111 Walnut St. Unit #9 2 bd/1.5 bth, 1700 sq. ft. bi-level home of lux. & amen. Sellers are incl 1 year paid parking as well! $584,900

5709 Malcolm St. Short Sale 5032 Chancellor St. 3br/1ba, Grt. Inv. Property. First-time buyer. Move in condition, close to universities 5818 Montrose St. The perfect Cobbs Creek starter home – porchfront rowhome in absolute move-in condition. A must-see. 116 S. 51st St. 4bd/1ba Fixer-Upper for Investors or 1st Time Buyers Priced Out of Univ. City. Nice Orig. Details 214 S. 56th St. Solid 3-unit bldg in a convenient location, 3rd flr is rent-ready, potential for cash flow! 4625 Hartel St. Price Reduced, Good Location, Many Upgrades 5337 Irving St. Impeccably Cared For Home on a Pretty Philadelphia Block! 4126 Chester Ave. Excellent Value Added Investment opportunity across the street from the University of the Sciences 542 S. 48th St. #B 3br/2ba, lovely shared courtyard. Quiet rear unit, private deck, FP, C/A, more 4813 Regent St. c.1892 restored Victorian Twin w/street orig details on quiet side street near Clark Park 4618 Osage Ave. 4br/2.5ba, beautiful home, Great Location, Orig. doors & flrs lead to lrg LR w/FP 527 S. 41st St. Catchment area 5bd/2.5ba, 2car pkng: Historically certified home, fully updated 514 S. 46th St. Stately 5bd/2ba Victorian on one of the most desirable blocks in the catchment area.

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Old City 215-923-7600 • Society Hill 215-546-2700

-546-2700 OLD CITY / LOFT DISTRICT / CHINATOWN

301 Race St. Unit 503 REDUCED! 1bdrm w/upd. kit. & tons of storage. New roof & owner paying assess. FHA/VA appr. 315 Arch St. Unit 703 1 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW flrs, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors. 315 Arch St. Unit 206 2 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW flrs, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors. 315 Arch St. Unit 504 1 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW flrs, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors. 315 Arch St. Unit 204 1 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW flrs, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors. 315 Arch St. Unit 704 1 BR, 1 BA condo w/HW flrs, huge windows, granite, SS appliances, & Tile Floors. 144-146 N. 3rd St. Unit C Stunning bi-level penthouse unit with TWO decks – in the heart of Old City.

$200,000 $270,000 $285,000 $295,000 $300,000 $300,000 $475,000

SOCIETY HILL / WASHINGTON SQUARE WEST

1109 Spruce St. #1F Charming 1bd/1ba, total rehab condo, granite, ss ktchn, wdflrs, high ceil., low fees & taxes 1326-48 Spruce St. #2706 Beautifully Renovated 1bd/1ba CC One Condo, H/W Flrs, Granite, S/S 515 S. Juniper St. Complete renovation, gas fireplace, gorgeous block/outdoor space 720 Chestnut St. Unit D Reduced! 2B/2b 1300 sqft condo in bout. bldg. Hi ceil., wood fl, granite & SS, priv outdoors, FP 929 Clinton St. #2R Fabulous 2 Bd w/den, 2BA Multi-Level TH design in boutique condo building 1034 Spruce St. Unit 601 2BA/2BR Corner unit with floor-to-ceiling windows & dramatic panoramic skyline view.

OPEN HOUSE $225,000 $339,900 OPEN HOUSE $399,900 $409,900 OPEN HOUSE $450,000 $499,900

QUEEN VILLAGE/ BELLA VISTA / GRADUATE HOSPITAL / SOUTH PHILA.

$67,000 $80,000 $125,000 $139,900 $152,000 $169,900 $170,000 $175,000 $225,000 $225,000 $245,000 OPEN HOUSE $274,900 $274,900 OPEN HOUSE $349,900 $350,000 $354,000 $360,000 OPEN HOUSE $389,900 $399,999 $414,900 OPEN HOUSE $425,000 $540,000 $649,900 OPEN HOUSE $775,000 OPEN HOUSE $850,000

NORTHERN LIBERTIES / FISHTOWN / NORTH PHILADELPHIA

1915 N. 23rd St. Row home – multifamily capabilities, rear yard = parking capabilities, original details, separate utilities. 2352 E Harold St. 2bd/1ba eco-friendly gem on great Fishtown block. Rehabbed top-to-bottom—a must see. 2344 E Letterly St. This 2 bdrm Fishtown home is completely renovated and features fabulous upgrades & large rear patio 1132 Marlborough St. Upgraded Charming Historic TH in Fishtown, H/W Flrs, wood brng frplc, lrg lot for expansion or devel. 2714 Almond St. NEW Listing! 20ft wide, 3bd/1bath, 1660sq ft home w/hdwds, enclosed porch & lg yd, newer kitchen

$125,000 $129,900 $189,900 $199,000 $200,000

NEW CONSTRUCTION

2101 Kimball St. Units #1&3 Modern 2br condo, built in closets, high eff systems, green roof 610 Greenwich St. New Cons 3bd home totally new from ground up. Tax abatement 2123 Kimball St. New Construction in Grad Hosp – early Summer ’11 completion – 2 br/2ba, fini bsmt 855 N. Uber St. New Construction. 2 bed, 2 bath, bilevel condo, GORGEOUS! 6011-13 Market St. DBL wide, Triplex, retail 1st flr, Tons of Potential 4415 Saint David’s St. New Construction THs short walk from downtown Manayunk w/amazing features 4419 Saint David’s St. New Construction THs short walk from downtown Manayunk w/amazing features 2370 E. Norris St. NEW CONS. JUST REDUCED! 1st fl commercial & two 2 bed apts 1st flr rents for $2500/mo.

OPEN HOUSE $238,900 $259,000 $300,000 $300,000 $400,000 $459,000 $459,000 $650,000

COMMERCIAL/INVESTMENT

3921 Pennsgrove St. Duplex – Great money maker 3122 Montgomery Ave. Investment property for first time investor. Lg 3 story w/1 car parking. 810 E. Chelten Ave. Income producing, fully occupied 4 unit bldg. Great investement opportunity 6147 Hawthorne St. Two –Unit corner lot, features two 2br/1ba units. Live in one, rent out the other 139 S. 50th St. Triplex – great income, recently updated 2438 S. 3rd St. Investor Opportunity-store front (deli/grocery) & 1 bd Apt (leased), well maintained bldg 1412-14 S 7th St. Unique development opportunity. Perfect for live/work lofts in the heart of Italian Mkt Area 1533-37 E. Moyamensing Ave. 3-story triplex & 2-story 2100 sqft commercial garage w/loft. Grt opp 203 S. 20th St. Commercial/Office/Retail Space in Premiere “Rittenhouse Hotel” 103 Callowhill St. Intimate 50 seat theatre, exp brick, velvet curtains, vintage scones. Upr Lvl Res/Off SURROUNDING AREAS

East Passyunk – 4242 N. 7th St. well-kept rental prop w/long trm tenant @ $675/mo, straight-thru design & nice size yard! $45,000 Clifton Heights – 22 Springfield Rd #J2 Ideal Starter Home, 2bd condo in modern block $56,000 Grays Ferry – 1356 S. Stanley St. Recently renovated home at a great price! $67,500 Port Richmond – 3150 Agate St. Fantastic Port Richmond Row w/newer heater, new plumbing and more! $75,000 Mayfair – 4723 Vista St. New Price! Inviting façade w/frnt patio & rear deck. 3 Bd hm w/grg encl as addl bdrm OPEN HOUSE $78,500 Upper Darby – 72 Gilpin Rd. 3bd rowhome in Upper Darby w/attached garage for sale $97,500 Wissinoming – 4331 Benner St. 3bd/1ba 2-sty TH 1200sqft, e-I ktchn, gas cooking $99,000 Northwood – 1381 Anchor St. Completely Renovated home from top to bottom $99,900 Francisville – 1425 Cambridge St. Grt investment opportunity – 3bd/2ba – needs completion $100,000 Port Richmond – 3107 Memphis St. Well cared for 3 br home, grt for 1st time homebuyers! $100,000 Port Richmond – 3027 E Thompson St. Grt 4bd hm under mkt value – motivated seller – take a look! $114,900 Northern Liberties – 441 W. George St. This 2bd/1ba NoLibs Row Home is Priced to Sell $150,000 Newbold – 1838 Carlisle St. 3br/1ba, Recently Updated $147,500 Holmesburg – 4405 Rhawn St. Grt Twin in Holmesburg w/backyard & plenty of storage space! $159,900 Port Richmond – 3298 1/2 Miller St. Recently updated 3 bdrm home w/detached 2 car garage. $150,000 Fishtown – 1137 E. Palmer St. Renov corner offers 3bd/2ba, HWfl, updated ktchn, 3rd fl master suite, lrg lot $229,000 Manayunk – 4524 Smick St. Manayunk townhome fully renovated in 2003, features 2br/1ba, rear patio $230,000 Roxborough – 6812 Pechin St. Fabulous twin, grt location across from a park. Lrg rear deck & yard. $269,900 Manayunk – 4715 Smick St. Grt hm on quaint cobblestone block w/plenty of parking! $279,900 East Passyunk – 1108 Latona St. Complete, gorgeous rehab on a grt blk, everything updated: HWflrs, ktchn, lrg yd! $280,000 Temple Univ – 1901 Diamond St. Fantastic 3-unit Bldg located just blocks frm Temple Univ Campus w/rear patio $425,000

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Old City

223-225 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19106

(215)923-7600

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$40,000 $140,000 $150,000 $169,000 $169,900 $259,900 $299,000 $375,000 $459,900 $599,000

P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K L Y S e p t e m b e r 2 1 - 2 7, 2 01 1

1837 Dickinson St. 3br/1ba Fixer upper on good block in Point Breeze 2234 Cross St. Fully renovated 3br/1ba home w/open LR/DR area, gourmet KIT, and rear yard 2214 Clarion St. 3br townhome in South Phila. Boasts remodeled KIT & lrg rear patio 2414 S Jessup St. Great house on a quaint street in Lower Moyamensing with a beautiful modern kitchen. 310 Gladstone St. Wonderful 2br home w/extra lrg bath, new kit., rear yard, many extras, 2nd fl laundry. 2742 S. Hutchinson St. Spacious home on a desirable South Philly block. 441 Jackson St. Price Reduced! 3bd/1ba Move right in to this beautiful home on a quiet street 1226 S. 20th St. Complete renovation in Point Breeze boasts an open flr plan, HWflrs, fin. bsmt 200-10 Lombard St. #622 Perfectly located and updated Abbot’s Square condo w/gourmet kitchen and sunny balcony! 1728 S. 18th St. 5br/3.5ba 1680sqft w/HW flrs, security sys, SS appl, & granite counters 525 Fitzwater St. #11 Abbott’s Court, beautiful 2 bed/1.5 bth, gated courtyard, gourmet kitchens, & H/W Flrs. 1833 Christian St. #A Bi-level TH w/open living/dining area, dlux ktcen, hw flrs, roof deck 2208 Kimball St. 2 Bdrm. 1.5 BA. C/A. Lots of Upgrades. Finishes LL. 6 yr. tax abatement. 771 S. 2nd St. #H Spacious & cozy condo in the heart of QV. 2bd/2.5ba upper floor unit w/prkng. 1715 S. 10th St. Completely renovated townhome features HWflrs, lrg rear patio, full finished bsmt 1512 S. 2nd St. Fabulous 3 bdrm, New Front, Hardwoods, Kitchen, Fireplace – Move Right In!! 1825 S. 12th St. Newly renovated townhome in Passyunk features 4br, HW flooring, large rear patio 1817 Catharine St. Right-sized 3br/1.5ba TH w/updates, wd-brng fireplace, Juliette balcony 924 Catharine St. REDUCED! 1800+sqft 3bd/1.5ba, exposed brk, new hdwds/carpet, lrg yrd, prime location, must see 773 S. 6th St. 2bd/2ba w/parking. Rents for $2400/m, www.773s6th.com for pictures. 1812 Spruce St. #2F Brand new 1BR/1BA condo conversion in the heart of Rittenhouse Sq. Dlx ktchn, W/D hook-up. 2053 Pemberton St. Roof-top deck 360 Center City Views! New Luxurious construction, 3br/2.5ba 629-31 S. 13TH St. Unit A Stunning 3 bed/3 bth new contruction. Luxurious finishes, Roof Deck, Parking + Tax Abatement 1812 Spruce St. #3F Brand new 3BR/3BA bi-level condo in the heart of Rittenhouse Sq, Dlux ktchn, W/D hook-up. 1812 Spruce St. #2R/3R Grand Rittenhouse Sq. 3bd/2.5ba TH-style condo w/office space & 2 terr.

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$309,000 $325,000 $325,000 $335,000 $425,000 $474,900 $475,000

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ART MUSEUM

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

tHe PHilaDelPHian

Combined home with 4 bedrooms plus den, 4 baths, large balcony with Art Museum view, upgr. kit. and baths

3,904

$599,000* $170,517 $227,956

$6,369

$858

$5,511

tHe PHilaDelPHian

2 bedrooms, 2 baths with views of the Art Museum and Center City skyline, upd. kit., large private balcony

1876

$439,900

$68,377

$167,041

$3,898

$1,919

$3,360

tHe PHilaDelPHian

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, new wood floors, balcony, Art Museum view, upgraded kitchen and baths

1876

$379,900

$63,582

$159,688

$3,726

$508

$3,219

Location

AVENUE OF THE ARTS

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

Monthly After Tax Cost

acaDeMy House

2 br,s 2 bas, split plan on a high floor, excellent lving and closet spaces, eat-in kitchen, master bedroom with ensuite bath & walk-in closet

1314

$379,900

$58,710

$135,098

$3,152

$442

$2,710

acaDeMy House

One bedroom, one bath, upgraded kitchen and bath, Juliet balcony, W/D

705

$289,000

$43,147

$91,067

$2,125

$315

$1,810

Location

RITTENHOUSE SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

barclay

3bedroom+den, 3.5 baths, marble foyer, formal dining rm, sunny eat-in kitchen, 10’ ceilings, moldings, oak herring bone floors, 3 gas fireplaces

3,293

$2,900,000* $666,174 $609,602

$14,224

$2,906

$11,318

barclay

2 brs plus den, 2.5 bas, magnificent original details paired with mod. amenities, beautifully appointed eat-in kitchen, Rittenhouse Square views

3,889

$2,490,000* $585,246 $592,036

$13,814

$2,649

$11,165

tHe rittenHouse

Penthouse, 2 bedrooms (or 3), 2 full baths, 2 half baths, high end finishes and appointments throughout, balcony with city views, Originally $4,200,000 3,952

$2,675,000* $837,195 $885,553

$20,663

$4,195

$16,467

lanesborougH

3 bedrooms, 3.5 baths, brand new, very high ceilings, his and hers master baths, custom kitchen, exquisite detail throughout.

3,467

$2,395,000* $557,550 $544,753

$12,711

$2,508

$10,203

220 w. rittenHouse sq.

Magnificent custom home with 3BR’s, 2.5BAs, balcony over Rittenhouse Square, chef’s kit., wonderful enter. space, lavish master suite

3,682

$1,975,000* $477,935 $540,403

$12,609

$2,388

$10,222

rittenHouse Plaza

2 bedrooms plus den COOP overlooking Rittenhouse Square, custom chef’s kitchen, lavish master suite, formal entertaining space

2,306

$1,450,000* $333,981 $480,752

$11,218

$1,385

$9,833

tHe warwick

3BR, 3BA, Bamboo flrs., spac. Kit w/custom wood cabinetry, granite counter tops, marble baths, 3 exposures, gym and hotel services

1,978

$1,350,000* $318,496 $308,302

$7,194

$1,444

$5,750

barclay

3 brs, 3 bas, most rooms have views of Rittenhouse Square, beautifully restored original details throughout

2,338

$1,250,000* $326,409 $350,002

$8,167

$1,584

$6,582

tHe warwick

1 bedroom plus den, magnificent city views to the north and south, open kitchen, custom details and finishes throughout, one-of-a kind

2,421

$1,200,000* $349,089 $346,065

$8,075

$1,598

$6,477

tHe warwick

3 bedrooms plus den, 3.5 baths, open floor plan, chef’s kitchen, marble baths, north and south city views

2421

$1,195,000* $285,860 $296,707

$6,923

$1,332

$5,591

1830 rittenHouse square

2 brs + den, 2.5 ba home, lots of nat. light, beautifully maintained original details, great ent. space, lrg. kit.

2,431

$1,050,000* $293,626 $356,745

$8,324

$1,483

$6,841

tHe warwick

2 bedrooms + den, 3 baths, sun-soaked, wood floors, open kitchen, marble baths

1,614

$799,000* $191,918 $198,231

$4,625

$804

$3,821

Parc rittenHouse

Rarely available south side 2 bedroom, 2 bath, hardwood floors, marble bathroom, custom upgr. throughout

1019

$799,900* $190,168 $186,175

$4,344

$777

$3,567

Parc rittenHouse

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, terrace on pool club deck, open custom kitchen, marble baths, wood floors

1,272

$775,000* $185,892 $192,114

$4,483

$772

$3,711

2009 sPruce street

3 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, tri-level condominium, large private deck, luxurious master suite

2,844

$750,000* $180,974 $168,764

$3,938

$803

$3,135

tHe warwick

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, open floor plan, luxurious master suite, marble baths, wood floors, lots of light

1,199

$599,900* $143,842 $128,634

$2,134

$598

$2,404

Monthly After Tax Cost

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barclay

Two bedrooms, two baths, hardwood floors, building offers 24 hour doorman and gym, located on Rittenhouse Square

1,075

$539,000* $131,596 $143,484

$3,348

$562

$2,786

1900 rittenHouse

1 bedroom, 1 bath, Juliet balcony, upgraded kitchen and bath, lots of light, separate dining room, hardwood floors oPen sunDay 9/25 12:45-1:15PM

1,085

$479,900* $119,104 $132,166

$3,084

$537

$2,547

tHe DorcHester

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, high floor, balcony, city views

1,118

$450,000

$110,554 $122,617

$2,861

$463

$2,398

tHe warwick

One bedroom, one bath, hardwood floors, marble bath, custom kitchen

712

$399,900

$56,530

$109,074

$2,545

$418

$2,127

Parc rittenHouse

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, open kitchen, hardwood floors, marble bath

765

$389,900

$55,466

$112,662

$2,629

$406

$2,223

Parc rittenHouse

1 bedroom, large galley kitchen, open living and dining room, excellent closet space

661

$375,000

$53,518

$106,729

$2,490

$394

$2,096

Location

SOCIETY HILL

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

bank builDing

Brand new 2 BR + den, 2.5 BA home, lots of natural light, wood flrs, open chef’s kitchen, designer baths, services available from adjoining OMNI Hotel

2,025

$1,100,000* $258,737 $256,947

$5,995

$1,127

$4,868

bank builDing

Raw space that can be designed and built into a custom home overlooking Independence Mall

3,068

$950,000* $227,682 $255,277

$5,956

$1,016

$4,940

bank builDing

2 bedrooms plus den, 2.5 baths, hardwood floors, high-end open kitchen, designer bathrooms

2,117

$799,000* $190,281 $201,402

$4,699

$757

$3,943

bank builDing

Opportunity to create a custom home in a luxury, boutique condominium building on Independence Mall

2017

$575,000* $139,141 $159,045

$3,711

$561

$3,150

society Hill towers

Two bedrooms, one bath, parquet wood floors, washer/dryer, unobstructed river views, floor-to-ceiling windows

1,200

$399,000

$59,221

$130,914

$3,055

$450

$2,605

society Hill towers

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, unobstructed river views, beautifully upgraded kitchen and bath, wood floors throughout

1,200

$365,000

$56,802

$127,341

$2,971

$432

$2,539

society Hill towers

One bedroom, high floor, river view, investment opportunity

700

$269,900

$40,459

$88,265

$2,060

$303

$1,756

Location

WASHINGTON SQUARE

Total Square Footage

Price

Minimum Income Monthly Cost Monthly Tax Total Incld. Mtg, Condo Savings in a 31% for 10% Down Cash Fee & Taxes Tax Bracket Required Financing

inDePenDence Place

Bi-level penthouse, 2 bedrooms. 2.5 baths, 2 kitchens, impeccably finished throughout, amazing river and city views

4,500

$2,295,000* $553,618 $565,869

$13,204

$2,871

$10,333

inDePenDence Place

Magnificent penthouse with 1 br plus den, 3.5 ba, completely renovated w/ custom finishes throughout, balcony over Wash. Sq, a must see!

3,153

$1,900,000* $458,112 $464,097

$10,829

$2,285

$8,544

tHe liPPincott

Custom 2 bedroom, 2 bath home with high celing, lots of light, open chefs kitchen, luxurious master suite, direct view of Washington Square

1,775

$1,075,000* $254,330 $256,397

$5,983

$1,131

$4,852

inDePenDence Place

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautifully ren. kit. and baths, balc. with city and river views, hdwd. flrs. in living areas

1,977

$825,000* $201,544 $209,714

$4,893

$909

$3,984

inDePenDence Place

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautifully renovated throughout with open kitchen and designer baths, wood floors, balcony

1,387

$719,900

$173,985 $170,833

$3,986

$742

$3,244

inDePenDence Place

2 bedrooms, 2 baths, updated kitchen, balcony, southeast views

1,457

$589,900

$144,332 $148,549

$3,466

$628

$2,838

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1.5 baths, alcove, completely renovated with gourmet kitchen, designer bath, amazing closets

1,118

$479,900* $116,244 $117,081

$2,732

$491

$2,241

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, laundry room, excellent condition

928

$299,900

$44,603

$90,607

$2,114

$345

$1,769

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, wood floors throughout, upgraded kitchen and bath, custom closets, balcony

928

$269,900

$40,873

$84,279

$1,967

$321

$1,646

inDePenDence Place

1 bedroom, 1 bath, balcony, upgraded kitchen, new fixtures throughout

860

$259,900

$39,486

$78,771

$1,838

$295

$1,543

stricklanD row

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, excellent natural light, wood floors, open kitchen,

1,188

$250,000

$39,541

$103,209

$2,408

$292

$2,116

stricklanD row

2 bedrooms, 1 bath, bi-level, open kitchen, wood floors

857

$209,900

$36,512

$90,471

$2,111

$270

$1,841

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220 W. riTTenhouse square 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, 360 degree views, balcony atop Rittenhouse Square, spectacular finishes and details throughout, 3682 sf

$1,975,000

Parc riTTenhouse 225 s. 18Th sTreeT Last opportunity to build a custom penthouse at Top of the Parc, 270 degree city views, balcony, sold as raw space, 2311sf

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Center City Luxury Condominiums For saLe

$1,195,000

The WarWick 1701 locusT sTreeT 2 bedrooms, 2 baths, split floor plan, open kitchen, wood floors, marble baths, 1199 sf

$599,900

socieTy hill ToWers 210 locusT sTreeT

$365,000

2 bedrooms, 2 baths overlooking the Art Museum, updated kitchen and baths, new wood floors, W/D, 1876sf

$379,900

indePendence Place 233 s. 6Th sTreeT 1 bedroom, updated hardware and fixtures throughout, balcony, open kitchen, 860 sf

$259,900

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P H I L A D E L P H I A W E E K L Y S e p t e m b e r 2 1 - 2 7, 2 01 1

2 bedrooms, pristine condition, updated kitchen and bath, unobstructed river views, 1200 sf

The PhiladelPhian 2401 Pennsylvania ave