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By Ryan Kasley ryan@epgn.com The Supreme Court of the United States last week announced it would take up several marriage-equality cases this session — a move that will ideally settle the fight to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states.

Essentially, the justices will determine if the U.S. Constitution allows states to deny same-sex couples the right to marry.

Cases will be heard from Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, which all fall under the jurisdiction of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. In November, the Sixth Circuit became the only appellate court to overturn a lower district court’s ruling striking down the states’ marriage bans. The plaintiffs in these cases decided to appeal to the Supreme Court.

“Our lawyers stand ready to make our case before the Supreme Court to end discriminatory marriage laws once and for all,” said Kevin Cathcart, executive director for Lambda Legal, which is part of the team representing the plaintiffs in the Ohio case.

“Every day that one of these bans remains on the books anywhere in the country is another day of harm and pain for thousands of families.”

Equality Pennsylvania executive director Ted Martin cited timing as a key element.

“I think the Supreme Court has waited just long enough to get the right cases in front of them, and they waited until there were a good number of cases already settled in favor of marriage equality,” he said. “The timing is good.”

Martin is optimistic of the outcome, but said an unfavorable decision would be a big step backwards.

“The justices are not insulated from the rest of the world; they have a good sense of things,” Martin said. “A decision to uphold the bans would only strengthen the crazy patchwork quilt of protections from state to state and be counterintuitive to their previous ruling.”

To date, four federal circuit courts and dozens of federal district courts have ruled such bans unconstitutional.

Oral arguments will be held in April, with a decision expected by the end of June. n

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SERVICE IN ACTION: Organizers and supporters of the Team Bayard initiative took a break from volunteering for a photo at William Way LGBT Community Center Jan. 20.

The initiative, to mark the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service and pay tribute to out King advisor Bayard Rustin, drew more than 100 volunteers, who participated in an array of service projects throughout the Gayborhood. Supporters included Anna Aagenes, Paul Farber, Anthony Fluellen, Paul Steinke, SharRon Cooks, state Rep. Brian Sims, Bernard Williams, City Council’s Veterans Advisory Commission director Scott Brown, City Councilman Mark Squilla and city director of LGBT affairs Nellie Fitzpatrick.

For more photos, see page 8. Photo: Scott A. Drake

Just a few days before his inauguration, Gov. Tom Wolf announced the nomination of a transgender woman to his top level of administrators.

If confirmed by the Senate, Dr. Rachel Levine will serve as the state’s new physician general, and is the first out transgender person ever to be named to a high-ranking Pennsylvania government post. Wolf has not yet announced if the physician general post will be part of his cabinet; if so, Levine would become one of the top-ranking transgender government officials in the nation.

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No arrest in N. Philly murder

By Ryan Kasley ryan@epgn.com

The man who shot and killed a North Philadelphia lesbian in broad daylight last week remains on the loose.

Kim Jones, 56, was shot in the head while waiting for a SEPTA bus at 12th and Jefferson streets, near Temple University, Jan. 13 at 9:30 a.m.

“There are no updates on this case,” said police spokesperson Officer Jillian Russell.

Russell added that “no motive has been ruled out yet” in regard to the possibility that Jones was targeted for being a lesbian.

Investigators last Friday released video surveillance of the gunman, who they say waited for Jones near the bus stop for about an hour. After the shooting, he walked to the Broad Street Subway.

He is described as a 6-foot black man with a stocky build, wearing a black twotone jacket with a dark hood, black pants, a dark bomber/ aviator-style hat with flaps and light-colored fur lining, dark gloves, black sneakers with a white stripe around the sole, white or silver “Beats”type headphones and a dark, two-tone duffle/gym bag.

Jones married her partner a few weeks prior to her death.

She had been divorced from her ex-husband for over 25 years and had two adult sons.

Jones was waiting for the bus to her Center City job at Turning Points for Children, a social-service program where she had worked as a program director for seven years.

The city is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction. n

WESTWARD ACTION: The ribbon was cut Tuesday on the new Annex West, a collaboration of ActionAIDS and The Family Practice & Counseling Network. Housed at ActionAIDS’ West Philadelphia office, 3901 Market St., the venture is the first time health-care services are being provided onsite at an ActionAIDS office. On hand in the primary examination room to mark the new venture were FPCN behavioral-health consultant Rosemary Crisfulla (from left), ActionAIDS assistant director of client services Catherine Corson, Health Annex center director Patrick Oleskey, ActionAIDS executive director Kevin Burns, FPCN director of primary care Gail Partridge and FPCN chief operating officer Emily Nichols. The clinic is designed to meet the health-care needs of ActionAIDS’ uninsured or under-insured clients. Photo: Scott A. Drake

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Gayborhood Crime Watch The following incidents in the Midtown Village and Washington Square West areas were reported to the Sixth Police District between Jan. 5-11. Information is courtesy of Sixth District Capt. Brian Korn; Stacy Irving, senior director, Crime Prevention Service; Center City District; the Police Liaison Committee and Midtown Village Merchants Association. To report crime tips, visit www.phillypolice.com or call 215-686-TIPS. INCIDENTS — Between 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Jan. 7, someone broke into two apartments in a building in the 900 block of Pine Street.

One was entered without force, and the other had a door pried open. The culprit stole laptops and jewelry. Sixth District Officer McCauley was able to lift a fingerprint.

— At 4:15 p.m. Jan. 7, a man was walking in the Gallery near the food court, at 11th and Market streets, when three males came from behind, went through his pockets and punched him. The culprits did not steal anything and fled east through the concourse. They were described only as black males between 16-17, one wearing a gray hoodie, another a navy sweatshirt and the other a puffy coat.

— Between 7 a.m.-7 p.m. Jan. 7, someone forced open a door to an apartment in the 900 block of Spruce Street and stole a laptop and jewelry. Sixth District Officer Witherspoon attempted to lift fingerprints.

— At 8:10 p.m. Jan. 7, a man got into an argument with two people inside the Wendy’s restaurant at 1101 Walnut St. The culprits stabbed the man in the leg and stole his cell phone before fleeing north on 11th Street and into the subway. One was described as a 5-foot-8 black male in his 20s, thin with a beard and a dark complexion; the second culprit was a 6-foot black transgender woman wearing a black wig and purple beret, a black hoodie and brown boots.

— At 1:30 p.m. Jan. 9, after ordering coffee and a doughnut inside Dunkin’ Donuts at 1324 Walnut St., a male showed a shotgun inside a trash bag to the employee and demanded money before fleeing west on Walnut Street. The suspect was described as a 55-year-old black male, 5-foot-7, with a medium build and bumpy face, wearing a black cap, black jacket and cream pants.

Central Detectives recovered fingerprints.

— At 9:55 p.m. Jan. 9, an employee’s unattended handbag was stolen from inside the bakery at 1315 Walnut St. by a 5-foot-10, 50-year-old black male, thin, with a beard and missing teeth, wearing a dark coat.

— Between 9:30 p.m. Jan. 9 and 8:30 p.m.

Jan. 10, someone stole cash from a safe in an office in the 400 block of South 10th Street. There was no forced entry into the office; the doors were left open, and there were some marks on the door of the safe.

Central Detectives responded to the scene to check for evidence and fingerprints.

— There was one theft from a parked vehicle reported Jan. 5-11: outside 1300 Walnut St. — There was one theft of a bicycle reported Jan. 5-11: outside 21 S. 12th St. NON-SUMMARY ARRESTS — At 10:30 p.m. Jan. 7, Sixth District plainclothes Officers Ferrero and Grant observed a 2012 Honda travelling in the 200 block of South Juniper Street that was in stolen status. With the help of uniformed officers, the vehicle was stopped and the operator arrested. The vehicle was reported stolen from Abington Township.

The 36-year-old suspect with a Roslyn address was charged with receiving stolen property and unauthorized use of a vehicle.

— At 10:50 p.m. Jan. 7, Sixth District Officers Cash and Romanczuk arrested a male outside 425 S. Broad St. who was wanted on a warrant for probation violations. The 50-year-old suspect with a homeless-shelter address was charged with escape.

— At 6:20 p.m. Jan. 9, a patron’s iPhone was stolen from inside MilkBoy, 1100 Chestnut St. On Jan. 10, the victim received a call to meet and buy back his device. Sixth District plainclothes Officers Seifert, Wenger and Grant met the caller at Torresdale Avenue and Pratt Street. At 8 p.m., they took a 16-year-old with a Tacony address and a 17-year-old with a Frankford address into custody, recovering the iPhone. The suspects were charged with receiving stolen property.

SUMMARY ARRESTS — At 4:15 p.m. Jan. 11, Sixth District officers issued a citation for a summary offense outside 201 S. Broad St. n

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Trans woman challenges GID exclusion

By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Trans woman Kate L. Blatt this week filed a legal challenge of the Americans with Disabilities Act’s exclusion of gender-identity disorder as a protected disability.

The ADA protects people with disabilities from discrimination in private-sector employment, public accommodations and governmental services.

Blatt contends that Congress acted unconstitutionally in 1989 when excluding GID as a protected disability under the ADA. Other excluded impairments include pedophilia, voyeurism, exhibitionism, compulsive gambling, pyromania and kleptomania.

Blatt’s legal challenge is part of her federal lawsuit against Cabela’s Inc. Blatt worked at Cabela’s as a seasonal stocker between September 2006 and March 2007. She alleges job discrimination based on her sex and disability.

The store, located in Hamburg, specializes in outdoor sports items.

Cabela’s banned Blatt from a female restroom, thus discriminating against her due to her disability, according to Blatt’s lawsuit.

But Cabela’s argues that since GID isn’t covered under the ADA, Blatt couldn’t have been discriminated against because of a disability.

In a 45-page brief filed Jan. 20, Blatt lambastes ADA’s GID exclusion.

“The ADA isolates, segregates and injures those transgender individuals that the ADA should protect,” the brief states.

The brief argues that GID was excluded due to moral animus against transgender individuals.

“The only objective that the GID exclusion was intended to achieve is moral condemnation of those transgender individuals who fall within its scope,” the brief states.

“The Supreme Court has cast aside moral animus and moral disapproval as compelling, important and legitimate governmental reasons for imposing a legislative classification. As such, the GID exclusion

is unconstitutional.”

The brief also challenges assertions that GID’s exclusion protects private employers from frivolous lawsuits.

“This court should invalidate the only alleged non-moral based justification for the GID exclusion: protecting the private sector,” the brief states. “This lone ‘justification’ was instead a pretext for permitting government-sanctioned moral animus.”

The brief emphasizes that transgender people are deserving of anti-bias protections.

“The Equal Protection Clause [of the Constitution] was enacted to shield discreet groups of people like transgender individuals against this animus-based government reasoning, and the GID exclusion should therefore be declared unconstitutional.”

Additionally, Blatt contends that excluding GID is tantamount to government-sanctioned discrimination.

“Simply put, the exclusion of GID represents government-sanctioned discrimination against transgender people because it codifies their unequal status in the ADA,” the brief states.

As of presstime, neither Cabela’s nor a representative of the federal government replied to Blatt’s brief.

“We’ve notified the Attorney General of the United States of our claim, and the government has 60 days to respond, but there’s no requirement that they do so,” said Neelima Vanguri, an attorney for Blatt.

Blatt is seeking lost wages and compensatory and punitive damages, and has requested a jury trial, according to court records.

The case is pending before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl.

“We’re optimistic based on the legal merits of the claim,” Vanguri concluded.

“We can’t speak to how the judge will rule. But based on our legal analysis, we’re convinced that this exclusion is unconstitutional.”

Case law has interpreted the ADA to cover disabilities that include bipolar disorder, carpal tunnel syndrome, insomnia, obesity, psoriatic arthritis, depression, diabetes, eating disorders, monocular vision, stuttering, back injuries and anxiety disorder. n

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News Briefing Appeal filed in Shephard case William F. Smithson has filed a notice of appeal in state Supreme Court for a new trial in the Jason Shephard murder case.

In 2008, Smithson was sentenced to life in prison without parole for Shephard’s murder.

The two men worked at Daktronics, an electronic-billboard manufacturer. In 2006, Smithson invited Shephard to his Delaware County home. There, Smithson strangled Shephard in the course of trying to rape him, according to prosecutors.

Smithson denies the allegations. He maintains that C. Bruce Covington, who was also inside Smithson’s home when Shephard was killed, wasn’t properly investigated.

Covington was convicted of drug-related offenses relating to the incident, but prosecutors say he didn’t kill Shephard.

Last month, the state Superior Court denied Smithson’s request for a new trial, stating Covington was adequately investigated. Advocates for Smithson — who is openly gay — say there’s no direct evidence linking Smithson to Shephard’s strangulation. They also say homophobia played a significant role in Smithson’s prosecution.

Smithson, 49, remains incarcerated at a state prison in Huntingdon.

Settlement conference held in bullying case A settlement conference was held this month in the case of Thomas Vandergrift, a gay man who says his nephew experienced pervasive anti-LGBT bullying while a student in the Pennsauken School District.

Vandergrift also claims that district employees retaliated against him for complaining about the alleged bullying by accusing him of molesting his nephew.

In 2012, Vandergrift filed suit in federal court, and a jury trial is expected later this year if the case isn’t settled or dismissed.

The settlement conference was held Jan. 9 in Camden before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel Schneider.

Neither side had a comment for this story.

New city attorney in brutality case On Jan. 14, Michael R. Miller replaced Regina Lawrence as the city attorney assigned to defend the city against a police-brutality lawsuit filed by Luis Berrios 3d.

In 2010, officers were called to Berrios’ residence to quell a domestic dispute but allegedly reacted violently after realizing the dispute involved two gay men, according to Berrios’ suit.

Berrios alleges false arrest, false imprisonment, excessive force, assault and battery and other wrongdoing by police. Efforts to settle the case have been unsuccessful, and a jury trial is possible later this year.

Miller declined to comment.

“The law department generally does not comment on active litigation,” Miller said in an email.

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— Timothy Cwiek

Gender-neutral dorms coming to UDel A public university in the Philadelphia region has announced plans for a new housing option beginning fall 2015 that is being hailed as welcoming to transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

The University of Delaware all-gender housing option will offer upper-division undergraduate students who may identify as transgender, are questioning their gender identity, do not wish to prescribe to gender classifications or are uncomfortable with a same-sex roommate the chance to live in a more comfortable environment.

“We believe this option will provide a more comfortable living environment and on-campus home for some of our students,” said Kathleen Kerr, executive director of Residence Life and Housing at UDel. “The goal is to create an environment that acknowledges and respects the diverse nature and needs of our student body.”

The new all-gender housing will be available to sophomores, juniors and seniors who are at least 18. The accommodations provide suite-style double and single rooms with a shared bathroom.

The location of all gender housing will be on the Laird Campus, but the specific residence hall has not been determined yet.

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Penn to host corrective-rape forum The University of Pennsylvania next week will host a discussion featuring a South African LGBT activist and survivor of so-called “corrective” rape.

Ndumie Funda, founder of Luleki Sizwe — which provides support to people who have been victimized by the practice, justified by some as a way to “change” one’s sexual orientation — will be the featured speaker. The conversation, with Dr. Salamishah Tillet, will take place 5 p.m.

Jan. 29 at the Terrace Room of Claudia Cohen Hall, 249 S. 36th St. To register for the free event, visit https:// ndumiefundaevent.eventbrite.com. n — Jen Colletta

OREN BEN-YOSEF (FROM LEFT), ELAD STROHMAYER AND MAYOR MICHAEL NUTTER AT THE JAN. 15 WEDDING AT PHILADELPHIA CITY HALL

By Ryan Kasley ryan@epgn.com Mayor Michael Nutter last week officiated the high-profile wedding of a foreign diplomat and his partner at City Hall.

Elad Strohmayer, Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic Region, and Oren Ben-Yosef tied the knot Jan. 15 in the Mayor’s Reception Room at City Hall.

“It was only appropriate that our marriage took place in the beautiful structure that houses the seat of government of the City of Brotherly Love, that has come to be a second home since my appointment to the Consulate in 2012,” Strohmayer said, adding before the ceremony that the couple was “honored to be joined in marriage by Mayor Nutter, who has done excellent work to promote Israeli and LGBT interests in Philadelphia. We look forward to sharing this special day with so many people who have made us feel at home in this city.”

Both men are Israeli citizens, living in Philadelphia for the duration of Strohmayer’s appointment at the Consulate.

The ceremony — a one-hour combination Jewish-civil service — was attended by friends of the couple along with local political, LGBT and community leaders, as a symbol of the cooperative relationship between Israel and the city of Philadelphia.

The grooms recited vows to each other that included references to their Israeli upbringings as well as their love for America, with particular focus on their love for Disney World.

“Today would not have happened

if the laws in Pennsylvania had not changed just last year,” Nutter noted.

“Pennsylvania was established with the principles of human rights, tolerance and understanding in mind. Clearly, Philadelphia and Tel Aviv share these principles. For that reason, I am so very honored to co-officiate this ceremony and bring our two sister cities together.”

The ceremony was also presided over

by Rabbi Michael Beals of Congregation Beth Shalom in Wilmington, Del. “Conducting this ceremony means the world to me,” Beals said. “Not only because Elad, and his bat shert Oren, are such lovely people, but also because of what it symbolizes for the state of Israel: The fact that Israel is a safe place for gay people is an important message at this time of such international intolerance. The fact we can do so many great things in one ceremony is great. I feel terribly honored to have conducted this service.”

Strohmayer earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He joined the Israeli Foreign Service in 2010 and served as Deputy Ambassador of Israel in Luanda, Angola. He was appointed Deputy Consul General of Israel to the Mid-Atlantic Region in August 2012.

Ben-Yosef also obtained a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations from Haifa University and a master’s of business administration from Manchester University. He worked in the Israeli and global hightech industry for 18 years, with his most recent position as senior account executive for government and health care at Microsoft. n

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Media Trail Michigan must recognize 300-plus marriages A federal judge has ruled that Michigan must recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages performed during a brief window last year.

U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith ruled Jan. 15 that the unions are valid and stayed the decision for 21 days pending any appeal by the state.

A different federal judge struck down the state’s gay-marriage ban on March 21.

More than 300 same-sex couples in four counties got married the next day, before an appeals court suspended the decision and blocked additional marriages.

Michigan has refused to recognize those marriages. Attorney General Bill Schuette said in a statement that his office is reviewing the ruling.

West Hollywood to require gender-neutral restrooms West Hollywood recently began requiring gender-neutral restrooms under a law that aims to make those of all gender identities more welcome.

The ordinance took effect Jan. 15 and

International Thai constitution would protect LGBT rights Gay-rights activists are welcoming a clause in a draft of Thailand’s new constitution that is aimed at protecting the rights of LGBT people.

The Constitution Drafting Committee, a group hand-picked by the military junta to draft a new charter, recently added wording that will make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT people.

Thailand is known for its tolerance of transgender people, but formal and legal acceptance is limited.

Gender-rights activist Natee Teerarojjanapongs on Jan. 16 called the move “praiseworthy” and said it could lead to other breakthroughs for LGBT rights.

Critics, however, say the inclusion does

requires that restrooms with only one stall in restaurants, businesses and public places cannot restrict it to a specific sex either by signage or fixtures. It does not apply to multi-stall restrooms.

Existing businesses have 60 days to make changes, but new ones must heed the requirements immediately.

“Gender-specific restrooms can be unwelcoming and potentially unsafe for many people whose gender identity falls outside of traditional gender norms,” according to a city statement released this week.

A similar law was passed in 2006 in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia passed a measure in 2013 that requires new or renovated city-owned buildings to include gender-neutral bathrooms.

Alaska asks for delay in marriage appeal Alaska Attorney General Craig Richards is asking a federal appeals court to not do anything with the state’s appeal of a gay-marriage ruling until the nation’s high court weighs in.

A department spokesperson said Alaska will continue to allow and recognize samesex marriages. The high court announced Jan. 16 that it will take up four marriage cases to decide whether same-sex couples nationwide have a right to marry.

In October, a federal judge in Alaska struck down this state’s same-sex marriage ban, and the state appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court.

Richards said SCOTUS will address the same issues at the heart of the Alaska case. n

— compiled by Larry Nichols

not necessarily translate to reality.

The constitution draft is subject to further consideration by an unelected national reform council before taking effect.

Irish Cabinet minister comes out A senior Cabinet minister in Ireland has announced he’s gay, becoming the first openly LGBT government figure in the traditionally conservative Catholic country.

The Jan. 18 announcement on state radio

by Health Minister Leo Varadkar received widespread praise for its straightforward honesty.

Varadkar said he decided to declare his sexuality before several government initiatives this year to advance gay rights. These include plans to legalize same-sex marriage, permit gay men to donate blood and create greater parenthood rights for gays in surrogate-pregnancy cases.

Varadkar made his announcement on his 36th birthday. He says his family, friends and many colleagues long knew or suspected he was gay. n — compiled by Larry Nichols

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D’Anne Witkowski

Randy Thomasson

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Seat at the table Pennsylvania’s new governor took an important step forward last week for LGBT rights, before even being inaugurated.

In a history-making move, Gov. Tom Wolf nominated Dr. Rachel Levine to the post of physician general; if confirmed, and if the post is part of Wolf’s cabinet, Levine will become one of the highest-ranked transgender government officials in the country. And, she will be the first transgender person ever appointed to a high-ranking post within Pennsylvania government.

The move should be heralded for a number of reasons. First, Levine’s background alone is deserving of the nomination.

A physician for more than 30 years, Levine’s education includes training at Harvard University, Tulane University and Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Following a career in adolescent medicine, she ascended to the helm of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Eating Disorders at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.

While her credentials make her a natural fit for the post — which oversees the state’s work not just in medical fields, but also in mental- and behavioral-health areas — Levine’s nomination is also both a practical and symbolic win for the LGBT community.

As an out trans woman and close advisor to the governor, Levine would occupy an LGBT seat (hopefully, one of many) at the table. Levine has a long history of LGBT advocacy and involvement, and will doubtlessly bring that to the position. Her proximity in state government, therefore, could function to heighten the awareness of and action on issues facing the LGBT community.

And, her appointment is a long-overdue acknowledgment that transgender people play vital roles in the operations of our state. Levine’s nomination illustrates to Pennsylvania that one’s gender identity — in addition to one’s sexual orientation, race, religion, national origin and age — does not and should not matter, one way or the other, toward advancing one’s personal and professional goals. This is an empowering message that is not often enough sent to our community. n

Desperate times call for desperate measures, and these are desperate times for antigay “marriage defenders” like Randy Thomasson of Save California, an organization dedicated to children and families — just not gay ones.

On Jan. 7, Thomasson sent an “urgent” memo to fellow “pro-family leaders” that laid out the “solution” to the gay-marriage problem. And it’s a doozy.

You see, all one-penis+one-vagina-marriage advocates need to do is get likeminded governors in gay-unfriendly states to roll out the National Guard.

“Each governor pledges themselves to ‘support and defend’ the plain words of their state constitution, including, in morally conservative states, the definition of marriage as only for a man and a woman,” Thomasson writes. “And each governor is authorized to call out his/her state’s militia or National Guard to enforce written laws and maintain public order against foreign and domestic enemies.”

Not sure if homos count as foreign or domestic to Thomasson, but they definitely count as enemies. And the only way to “support and defend” the anti-gay-marriage amendments in state constitutions is to take them out. The homos, not the amendments.

Duh. So what’s a right-wing stalwart governor to do? Why, just follow Thomasson’s stepby-step plan, of course.

“In view of the current crisis on marriage, a constitutional governor can and should do the following,” Thomasson writes. “Announce he took an oath to obey the constitution, not to obey a judge’s unconstitutional opinion. Announce that no homosexual ‘marriage’ licenses will be issues [sic], and no county clerk is permitted to issue marriage licenses to anyone other than a qualified man and woman.

Utilize the support of the state attorney general (if that constitutional officer is willing to stand alongside) or use the state’s National Guard to enforce the law at county clerk’s offices.”

Hey, remember when Arkansas Gov.

Orval Faubus deployed the National Guard in 1957 to stop nine black kids from going to school in Little Rock? I don’t know why, but I just thought of that for some reason.

Something tells me that Thomasson sees Faubus as a hero, while history remembers Faubus as racist scum.

Now, you might be thinking, What about the law? Aren’t anti-gay-marriage amendments being struck down everywhere?

Well, yes, but the law is for losers, according to Thomasson.

“[G]overnors who are loyal to the written constitutions of their state and our nation must take executive action, instead of making excuses that they must ‘follow the law,’” he writes. “The claim that judges make the laws is both a fallacy and a misnomer, and is antithetical to a republic.

The law is written into the constitution by the people or the people’s representatives; the law is not what judges dream up, which is only their biased opinions.”

Got that? Governors who follow that law are just “making excuses.” Judges are just a bunch of biased dreamers, forcing us all to live in their homosocialist dream (read: nightmare) world. So much for checks and balances.

A constitutional governor (and “constitutional” is code for right-wing) would say, “All you people want is more, more, more, more, more! Leave marriage alone!

You’re lucky I even govern you bastards!”

And then he or she would lie prostrate in the doorway of their county clerk’s office, burst into tears and proceed to become a viral video sensation who occasionally does bareback porn on the side.

Oh, wait. That’s Chris Crocker. I always get him and constitutional governors mixed up. n

You see, all onepenis + one-vaginamarriage advocates need to do is get like-minded governors in gayunfriendly states to roll out the National Guard.

D’Anne Witkowski has been gay for pay since 2003. She’s a freelance writer and poet (believe it!). When she’s not taking on the creeps of the world, she reviews rock and roll shows in Detroit with her twin sister and teaches writing at the University of Michigan.

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Greater Philadelphia — sched The very first call is to this uled for Feb. 8. Then I recalled day the only one I can rememlast week’s decision to host a ber. The caller, in what seemed group from an Israeli LGBT to be a heavy Jewish accent, youth organization at the John asked, “Mr. Segal, are you C. Anderson affordable LGBTJewish?” I responded “yes.” friendly senior apartments for an He then again asked, “Are LGBT intergenerational discusyou Jewish?’ I again affirmed sion. Then it dawned on me that and he replied, “You can’t be I’d just been to a Jewish wedding both: a homosexual and a Jew. in City Hall presided over by a It’s against the words in the Conservative Jewish rabbi and Torah.” He began to read lines Mayor Michael Nutter. from the Old Testament and Thinking about all this sort of actually tossed in a few from tickled me. Let me explain. the New Testament.

Back in 1969 when we started I don’t think I have to editoMark Segal rialize Gay Youth as a committee of here; all I have to say, Gay Liberation Front in New with great pride, is that we York City soon after the Stonewall Riots, really have traveled a long road. n we in GY would often yell at our GLF brothers and sisters that they refused to Mark Segal, PGN publisher, is the give us any responsibility, and that was nation’s most-award-winning commenageist. So they took us up on that demand tator in LGBT media. You can follow when an invitation came to do a talk-radio him on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ show on WBAI. Since I was GY president, MarkSegalPGN or Twitter at https://twitter. it fell to me. It was the first radio show I com/PhilaGayNews.

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Out of touch I doubt she’d admit it, but my mother enjoys celebrity gossip. Growing up, it was common to see her toss a tabloid in the shopping cart to keep up with the latest.

A few years after I came out, my mother — who was then only starting to come to terms with the fact that she did not have a son — would query me on various celebrities, trying to find out if they were (as the tabloids claimed) gay or lesbian. I assume she maybe figured we all have lunch on Thursday afternoon or some such.

She asked about Cruise and Travolta, DeGeneres and O’Donnell. About some I had a tidbit or two about, but about most I had no clue. To be honest, I don’t much care: The interest in celebrity gossip does not appear to be a genetic illness.

One name that came up, all those years ago, was Bruce Jenner. At the time, Jenner had supposedly gotten a nose job, I recall, and people started to whisper about it.

This was ages before “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” or, for that matter, reality TV; then, Jenner was known as an Olympic gold medalist and “Wheaties” model.

Over the last several years, Jenner has been part of the reality show focusing on the children of his now-former wife. And he has undergone plastic surgery, grown his hair out and taken to earrings and manicures. The tabloids have gone nuts.

Just like daytime talk shows, trans stories are not uncommon in the tabloids, which, like the former, tend to focus on more salacious stories. I still remember some of the stories of transgender people in my mom’s tabloids; they were far more interesting to me than the celebrity trysts.

The last couple years have been big ones for transgender people, and this includes in the celebrity rags. Chaz Bono is still a regular feature in the supermarket lines several years after his transition, and there have been quite a few stories revolving around celebrity children potentially exploring their own gender identities.

This week, my spouse and I went to the supermarket, where, on the rack next to the gum and mints was Bruce Jenner, right on the cover of In Touch magazine.

Well, mostly Jenner: His head was poorly Photoshopped onto the body of former Dynasty star Stephanie Beecham, and he was given a poorly painted-on make-up job. The headline claims that this is “Bruce’s Story” of his life as a woman.

Now, much like I said to my mother back all those years ago, I really don’t know if Jenner is trans. He could be, or he could be just another celebrity on a plastic-surgery kick. More than this, I don’t much care what he chooses to do with his life.

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Street Talk What's the importance of having an openly LGBT City Councilmember?

"The LGBT people need to know there's someone from their community advocating for them.

People Michael Green who have musician firsthand Edgewater Park, N.J. experience with anti-LGBT oppression can be more effective in fighting it.

I don't live in Philadelphia but common sense tells me [LGBT equality] has a long way to go.”

"The visibility is important.

It gives the person more credibility.

They're in a better position to change Andrew Kelly opinion student and build Germantown coalitions.

We should be past the point of needing for an openly LGBT City Councilmember but, unfortunately, we're not."

"Diversity is always important, especially in government.

We're a very diverse city.

City Council should reflect that.

Joshua Pierce Gone are musician the days of Queen Village government composed solely of straight, white men. And good riddance.

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"There's a huge LGBT population in Philadelphia.

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I'm very surprised we haven't had one yet. It's shocking!

Philly isn't as progressive as

I do care, however, when a tabloid decides to put this sort of story out there.

Until this week at the supermarket, Jenner’s story was not one I paid attention to; celebrities make a living out of being noticed. Further, transgender people have certainly been on plenty of magazines before, including a groundbreaking appearance on Time last year by Laverne Cox of “Orange is the New Black.”

This badly Photoshopped photo isn’t like Cox’s Time cover. If anything, it is comical: a hit piece designed to scorn Jenner and — by extension — his ex-wife and family. The overall look of the cover is clownish, a thinly veiled mockery.

Whether they fully realized it or not, however, In Touch has painted a broader target than Jenner and the Kardashians.

They have put transgender people at risk.

I doubt I was at any personal risk in the checkout line. I live in a fairly friendly area, and we’re regulars at the market. But others are nowhere near as fortunate; they are at risk of violence at home, school, the

Rachel White neuroscience researcher Graduate Hospital area

it should be."

workplace and in their own neighborhoods.

This cover feeds into a culture that — in spite of our advances — still sees transgender people as freaks. That is what they literally painted Jenner as on that cover.

This, too, is what fuels transgender people to self-loathing, hatred and violence against themselves. When Leelah Alcorn took her life, one of her fears was that — as she was not being allowed to start her transition early — she would always appear masculine. In Touch opted to display a somewhat-masculine Jenner in bad make-up and someone else’s coat and scarf. What message does this send to the next Leelah Alcorn?

Someone else’s mother will pick up this tabloid and think this really is what transgender people are all about. How will that affect the real transgender people she meets? How many will be harmed? n Gwen Smith will admit to having bought the Weekly World News a time or three.

You’ll find her on Twitter at @gwenners.

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By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Pennsylvania is eight months out from the landmark court decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the Keystone State — but there are still a number of legal issues that have yet to be resolved that could prove problematic for same-sex couples.

The May 20 decision by U.S. District Judge John E. Jones 3d mandated that Pennsylvania both allow same-sex couples to marry and recognize legal marriages performed in other states — but, for same-sex couples who had been joined in other legal ways, the waters remain murky.

“Many people got civil unions, because that’s what available some places before marriage, and California had a domestic-partner registry as did a few other states,” explained attorney Tiffany Palmer, of Jerner & Palmer PC. “So the question is, will the courts in Pennsylvania see these as the equivalent to marriage or not? If you’re dissolving your union, is it done in Family Court or a different court? These are some of the issues we’re grappling with now.”

Palmer said her firm has a case before the Philadelphia Family Court of a same-sex couple looking to dissolve a civil union, and another that was in the Bucks County court system that ultimately had to be settled in Vermont, which offered civil unions before legalizing same-sex marriage.

“Even though people might think it should be simple — if you have a civil union, it should be able to be dissolved like a marriage — there have been complications,” said Thomas Ude, legal and public policy director at Mazzoni Center. “Some clerks have been pointing to each other as the place to file, whether it should be in Family Court like with a divorce of a marriage, or handled differently.”

Since such questions have just started to be asked in the past few months, there is no clear precedent yet in Pennsylvania.

“It’s all on a case-by-case basis,” Palmer said. “We don’t really have any direction from the appellate courts yet because no one’s taken it up on appeal; everything has been on the trial and family-court levels. So I’m hoping eventually there will be some more guidance statewide.”

Those who received marriage licenses in Montgomery County last summer — during a short window in which Bucks County Register of Wills D. Bruce Hanes was issuing them — are also in limbo. Same-sex couples who were involved in a lawsuit seeking recognition for those marriages were able to negotiate a settlement, yet couples who were not parties in the suit are still seeking resolution.

Another area where questions abound is parentage rights.

Parentage laws vary by state, and some dictate that the spouse of a parent who has conceived a child through assisted

reproduction, with an anonymous sperm donor, is also a legal parent. However, Pennsylvania has no such statute.

“There’s no statutory guidance at all,” Palmer said. “So other than having a biological connection, giving birth, or adopting a child, it’s very unclear what other bases for being a parent would be. Case law essentially holds that, if you’re not genetically related, and if that relationship is no longer intact, it could be determined that you’re not a parent.”

Palmer noted that the lack of national uniformity in parentage laws has been exploited in custody battles.

“The worst cases we’ve seen coming out of this context is where one partner has taken advantage of the laws, say where the biological parent moves to a state that may be hostile to same-sex couples to basically take the child away from the other person,” she said. “It’s the laws of the state where the couple is separating at, not where the child was born, that applies.”

A lot of these issues, Palmer noted, can be avoided through stepparent adoption for assisted-reproduction cases. Before Pennsylvania adopted marriage equality, same-sex couples had to undergo a second-parent adoption to both become legal parents to a child produced from assisted reproduction. Now, however, they can file for a stepparent adoption, which Palmer noted is less time-consuming and costly.

While some of the parentage-related challenges could be addressed through the legislature adopting a form of the Uniform Parentage Act, Palmer said, pressing for legislative reforms in this realm at this time may be unadvisable.

“When conservatives legislate, they tend to make things more restrictive,” she said, noting that the New York legislature banned gestational surrogacy, an option often utilized by same-sex male couples.

“If surrogacy was outlawed, that would be horrible for so many same-sex couples, many who come from all over the world to Pennsylvania for surrogacy. Without legislation you have fewer restrictions; ideally it would be nice to have statutory guidance, but given our legislative makeup, I could see it as potentially making things worse.”

The legislature could play a role in banning LGBT discrimination. Ude noted federal nondiscrimination law has at times been interpreted to include protections based on sexual orientation and gender identity, but a state statute is needed.

“Those are all good trends,” Ude said.

“But, there are employers who discriminate because they want to, and employers who discriminate because they don’t realize it’s actually illegal to discriminate. The more explicit the laws, the easier it is for us to educate employers so they can’t claim ignorance. Without these protections, people are vulnerable to having to fight battles they shouldn’t have to face in the first place.” n

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By Jen Colletta jen@epgn.com Next month’s Justice in Action luncheon will highlight the connectedness among the local, national and international LGBTrights movements.

The event, held from 10 a.m.1:30 p.m. Feb. 19 at 200 S. Broad St., raises funds for Mazzoni Center’s legal-services department.

This year’s honoree is Jessica Stern, executive director of International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

Stern was the first researcher on LGBT rights at Human Rights Watch and has led investigations into LGBT-rights violations in Iran, Krygyzstan, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates.

Stern will join attorney Wendy Castor Hess, a partner at Goldblum & Hess, and Dr. Eileen Doherty-Sil, an adjunct associate professor at University of Pennsylvania, for a continuing-legal education course from 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m., before the lunch and award presentation.

The course is organized by attorney Andrew Chirls of Fineman Krekstein & Harris, P.C., who is co-chairing the event with attorney Margaret Klaw of Berner Klaw & Watson, LLP. Thomas Ude, Mazzoni Center legal and public policy director, said the selection of Stern as the guest of honor segued into the idea of having a discussion on global LGBT-rights issues.

“We’re looking at ways LGBT rights, on the local and national levels, influence and are influenced by the global movement,” Ude said. “As we’re seeing with the marriage-equality movement, when same-sex couples travel from one state to another, there are important rights and protections that they lose or gain, which makes them vulnerable. And I think that, to be responsible global citizens, we have to be mindful to ensure that, as we make advances, no one gets left behind; there are a lot of protections we currently

have, but there are places that are not as friendly to LGBT people, and places where LGBT rights are simply absent.”

Ude added that, as the United States strives to stay at the forefront of the LGBT-rights movement, it’s important to be cognizant of where international issues stand.

He noted that the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court case that struck down sodomy laws referenced international legal developments to support its conclusion that same-sex intimacy is protected by the U.S. Constitution.

“A l t h o u g h similar references were JESSICA absent from the STERN Supreme Court’s 2013 Windsor decision, except for a passing mention by the dissent, the progress and regression of LGBTrights issues globally has been and continues to be important for people in the United States, where we strive to continue to be in the forefront of the ongoing struggle for equality,” he said.

Ude said Stern will add interesting, firsthand experiences to that discussion.

“We’re really excited about the event,” Ude said. “We have a great honoree, a great CLE event, a wonderful committee that has worked really hard and we’re looking forward to having a really great attendance.”

The CLE course is $149 for Pennsylvania Bar Association or county bar association members, $159 for nonmembers and $79 for non-attorneys or attorneys not seeking CLE credits. The price does not include the luncheon.

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Lawyer couple reflects on working, life partnerships

By Ryan Kasley ryan@epgn.com

In their 23 years together, the husband and husband duo of lawyers Carl Minster and David Facciolo have garnered a wealth of insight on the legal profession and the challenges and benefits of running a business together — Minster & Facciolo, LLC. When Minster first met Facciolo in the early ’90s, Minster was not a lawyer and had yet to attend law school; he had been fired from a high-level management position at the IRS for being gay, he said.

After taking a series of jobs that were below his experience and education level, Minster said Facciolo encouraged him to attend law school.

“I went to Widener University, and during my first year in Harrisburg, David would drive out to see me every weekend,” Minster said.

But after Minster’s first year, seeing each other on weekends only was no longer enough. Minster asked to transfer to Widener’s Wilmington location to be closer to Facciolo.

Minster graduated in 1997 and said it was difficult at first to land the type of job he wanted.

“I worked for a personal-injury firm for about a year because I had friends that worked there, but otherwise no one wanted to hire someone as old as I was,” Minster said.

After a year at the small personal-injury firm, Minster began his own practice and started working from home.

In September 1999, Facciolo started working in an “of counsel” role with Minster, meaning he would review the status of cases on a weekly or biweekly basis — but was still working full-time as a senior public defender in Wilmington.

Minster opened his first office in Philadelphia and later a second office in Wilmington.

After a 28-year tenure as a public defender, Facciolo — who among other accomplishments, created a name for himself as a chief proponent of incarceration alternatives — was able to “retire” and start working full-time with Minster.

While the pair expressed how thankful they were to spend more time together, Minster joked, “we keep two separate offices for a reason.”

“With two offices we can argue about a case over the phone, hang up, then call each other again in a few minutes,” Minster added.

Which seems to work just fine for the two, who, according to Facciolo, have very different but complementary approaches to a case.

“The best and worst part is that my husband is a former efficiency expert for the IRS,” Facciolo said. “He likes to laser-in on the issue, whereas I want to know all the information before I focus in. It keeps us both on our toes.”

“I have my cases and he has his cases, but we do discuss them with each other,” Minster said. “I will ask his opinion on something I am doing and vice versa.”

Facciolo credits his difference in approach to his background as a public defender.

“Many of my cases were won not in the courtroom per se, but what I could come up with when a prosecutor was offering me a bad deal,” Facciolo said.

But it also could have something to do with Facciolo’s upbringing. His parents once placed him in a speech contest so he would not be afraid of juries, and then in the eighth grade bought him the entire Dale Carnegie series of books to teach him how to be persuasive.

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risks are even greater for children and the The New Year is a time for many people to make resolutions — and among the most pop- elderly. Secondhand smoke even affects your pets. ular (and most frequently un-kept) every year Thirdhand smoke is the toxic residue left on is the pledge to quit smoking. Philadelphia has the highest smoking rate of any major city surfaces after someone has smoked. Clothing, curtains, walls, carpets, car seats and even in the country. In the LGBT communities, hair exposed to smoke can release dangerous where rates of tobacco use are significantly chemicals for as long as months. higher (one in three LGBT adults is a smoker, versus one in five among the general populaMyth 3: If I can’t do this cold turkey, then tion), this is an especially serious health conI’m just trading one addiction for another. cern. Smoking rates nationally are decreasing I hear this all the time as an excuse to conoverall, but within our community (especially tinue smoking. among our youth), rates are actuMany people want to quit ally increasing. without any assistance and use Recent, alarming data have willpower completely Nicotine, shown the especially deadly the addictive chemical in tobacco, effects of tobacco use in HIVacts on a very primitive, impulsepositive people. Smoking, on averdriven part of the brain that can age, decreases life expectancy by quickly overpower conscious six years. For HIV-positive smokthought and reason. This is an ers, it’s a decrease of 12 years. uphill battle for willpower that In people on estrogen therapy, only one in 20 smokers can overtobacco greatly increases the risk come without any extra help. for potentially deadly blood clots.

Data are now emerging on tobacThere are many medications available to help with quitting co’s effect on the worsening of smoking. Many of these are nicoHPV infection and effects on oral and anogenital cancer. tine-replacement therapies. Some Smoking and its related illnesses Andrew are drugs that work to decrease a person’s “drive” to smoke. The are of special concern to my pracGoodman goal of therapy is not to replace tice at Mazzoni Center. There are one addiction for another, but to various reasons why smoking can help you bust the habit for good. Asking for be a hard habit to break, but too many people help, in my opinion, is not a sign of weakness set themselves up to fail due to misinformabut a demonstration of one’s determination for tion and/or mental blocks. Since many of you have vowed to kick the habit for good in 2015, success.

I wanted to explore eight common myths Myth 4: I’m in this all by myself. about smoking that you may have mistakenly There are many supports to help you with bought into. quitting. Any primary-care provider can help you come up with a strategy to quit. Many of Myth 1: I’ve been smoking for so long that the damage is already done. the city’s health systems have intensive smoking-cessation programs that are covered by While it is true that the damage caused by insurance. Here in Philadelphia, residents can tobacco adds up over time, there are health use the QuitLine (1-800-QUITNOW) for free benefits to quitting at any age. In the first day coaching sessions and nicotine-replacement without smoking, your blood pressure will decrease and poisonous carbon-monoxide lev- therapy. There are also online resources (www. smokefreephilly.org) and even a nicotine-foels normalize, taking stress off your heart and cused 12-step program (1-877-TRY-NICA). blood vessels and increasing oxygen flow to Using medications and coaching support can all parts of your body. After the first month, your breathing eases as paralyzed cilia (micro- double your chances of quitting! scopic structures that clear debris from the Myth 5: Cutting back is good enough. lungs) start to work again. At one year after There is no “safe” amount of smoking, as quitting, your risk for heart disease is cut in every inhalation of tobacco draws toxic chemhalf. After five years, your risk for head and icals into the body. Additionally, smokers who neck cancers are half. These changes occur are trying to “cut back” often take deeper regardless of a person’s age. Even for people breaths and longer puffs on the fewer cigawho already have smoking-related disease rettes they have, resulting in just as much toxic (heart disease and COPD, for instance), quitexposure. ting decreases the severity and progression of those diseases.

Myth 6: My healthy diet and exercise cancel out the bad effects of smoking.

Myth 2: My smoking only affects my I often hear this said as, “It’s my only vice, health.

Doc.” Although marketing might tell us otherSecondhand smoke is the smoke that is inhaled from the burning end of tobacco prod- wise, there is no “vice” that any of us needs to uct. There are many risks to non-smokers who lead happy and healthy lives. Smoking is one of the worst “vices,” however, especially when inhale secondhand smoke, even if in a ventiit comes to health effects. lated area or outdoors. Non-smokers regularly A healthy diet and regular exercise are exposed to secondhand smoke are more likely wonderful habits that will benefit anybody’s to have breathing disease, catch pneumonia health. No vitamin, diet or exercise regimen and can have a 20-30-percent increase in risk can undo the effects of tobacco smoke. for heart disease and lung cancer. The health

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Myth 7: The weight gain from quitting smoking is just as unhealthy.

Smokers, on average, gain about 14 pounds after quitting smoking. While there may be some health risks from this weight gain, they are minute compared to the risks of continuing smoking.

I often encourage people who are concerned about this to build a weight-control strategy into their smoking-cessation strategy. Exercise, for example, is a great way to stay busy and help manage nicotine cravings.

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Lesléa Newman’s journey through her mother’s cancer

Sometimes, a book comes along at just iar to me, offered me great comfort. And the right time. My mother was diagnosed my mom loved poetry and this seemed like with lung, bone and brain cancer Dec. 23, a very fitting way to honor her memory.” just days after I received a copy of Lesléa It seems natural to me that for a poet Newman’s new book of poetry about her experiencing a parent’s illness and death, own journey through her mother’s illness familiar poems would resonate with new and death from cancer. Newman, best words. As I have made my own journey known for her classic children’s book in this landscape, familiar actions have “Heather Has Two Mommies,” takes us become imbued with echoes of the disfrom diagnosis to yahrzeit — the Jewish ease. I make dinner, take a shower, walk to the bathroom — simple tasks Myth 8: I switched to “lights” (or vaping or memorial a year after death — with an unflinching yet compasmy mom can no longer do for hookah) so I’m OK. sionate eye. herself, and I can no longer do Light cigarettes still expose a person to without thinking of her.

Newman’s poems are a harmful chemicals. Additionally, smokers Our acquaintance with raw reminder of the somewho switch to lights often smoke these cigaNewman’s poetic models may times-complicated bonds rettes longer and more deeply in order to get even give her versions more between parents and their grown the same amount of nicotine. This results in impact. In “Pills,” for example, inhaling similar amounts of toxic chemicals as children. They are poems of she riffs on Dr. Seuss’ lighttransition and pain, but also of regular cigarettes. Many tobacco products are marketed as organic or natural. These are no hearted “One Fish, Two Fish, the love that both makes those safer than regular cigarettes.

Red Fish, Blue Fish”: “One pill/ moments painful and that helps Electronic cigarettes work by heating liqtwo pills/red pills/blue pills.” us through them. I lost my uids (presumably containing nicotine) that are father to cancer three years ago, It’s amusing in a macabre way inhaled as a vapor. These products are comand I will soon lose my mother.

— but then she hits us in the gut Dana Rudolph at the end: “pills that make her pletely unregulated in the United States. I tell Even though my specific expepatients that we really have no idea what they riences differ from Newman’s, stomach churn/pills that make are inhaling when they use one of these and there seems much of the universal in her her insides burn/pills that make her ask me that the chemicals in the vapor could be as why/she has no pill to help her die.” words. bad, or even worse than, cigarettes.

She gives us the hard realities of cancer Many know only Newman’s children’s Hookah, smoking tobacco or other prod— bodily fluids, ventilators, weight loss books, but she is also an accomplished ucts through a water pipe, is just as dangerous poet, with works appearing in numerand swollen limbs — as well as the range (maybe more) than cigarette-smoking. Studies ous poetry reviews and magazines. She of emotions that comes from having the have shown that the smoke from tobacco disease and seeing a loved one endure it. has received poetry fellowships from the burned through hookah contains similar She carries us back through her mother’s National Endowment for the Arts and the amounts of dangerous chemicals as cigarettes, Massachusetts Artists Foundation, and life and shows us the bond between mother even after passing through water. Because and daughter, the things conveyed intenfrom 2008-10 served as the poet laureate of the way hookah is used, the amount of tionally and unintentionally from one genof Northampton, Mass. Her most recent chemical a person is exposed to is often much previous book of poems was “October eration to the next, the habits and traits we greater than with a cigarette. In an average value and those with which we struggle.

Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard,” hour-long session, a hookah user will inhale which explored the 1998 murder of the gay Some of the most poignant poems are 200 puffs of smoke. An average cigarette college student from a variety of perspecabout her father dealing with his wife’s smoker will inhale 20 puffs. tives. illness: “My father strokes my mother’s swollen hand/This ending is so far from Like “October Mourning,” “I Carry My Final thoughts: Kicking the cigarette habit what they’d planned,” she writes in one.

Mother” uses a number of different poetic may seem like a tough battle, but it is one that forms, from sonnet and haiku to many The poems about the time after her you can absolutely win. Ask for help and make lesser-known structures. She models some mother’s death are full of longing and a plan. If you’re a non-smoker, be supportive memory. “The art of losing my mother is of her poems explicitly on those of other to those in your life who are in the process of hard to master,” she writes, and shows us, poets, including Emily Dickinson, William quitting. You can make 2015 the first year in through her poems, how she has tried to do Carlos Williams and even Dr. Seuss. the rest of your tobacco-free life. n so.

Newman explained to me in an e-mail In both this book and the one on interview, “Because this was such a tough Andrew Goodman, MD, is assistant mediMatthew Shepard, she said, “The writing book to write emotionally, pouring my cal director at Mazzoni Center Family and helped me process tremendous losses.” feelings into rigid ‘containers,’ by which I Community Medicine. mean structured poems that are very famil- The Shepard murder was “a tragedy that

affected the entire world. It took me a decade to wrap my mind around the profound impact this hate crime had on a personal, national and international level.”

She never met Shepard, but coincidentally arrived to be the keynote speaker for Gay Awareness Week at the University of Wyoming, where he was a student, on the day he died. “I felt a tremendous obligation to honor his memory by working for social justice,” she said.

Writing about her mother, she said, “was different in that my mom’s death was not a tragedy. She lived to be 84 and had a full life. However, it was a much more personal loss.” While penning this work, she said, “I felt my mom very close beside me, which was a great comfort. And when I finished the book, it felt, in a way, like losing her all over again.

I’m looking forward to giving readings from the book as a way to keep my mom’s memory alive.”

This is not an emotionally easy book to read. For any of us who have lost or are losing a parent, however, it may help us through our grief, not least by reminding us that others have been through the same.

Newman is donating $1 for each book ordered before Jan. 25 (her mom’s birthday) to the Cancer Connection (cancer-connection.org), which she says “offers wonderful services, including a caregiver’s support group that helped me so much when my mom was ill.” Find the book (and more of her works) at lesleanewman.com/ newbks.htm. n

Pediatrics and chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Eating Disorders at Penn State Hershey Children’s HospitalMilton S. Hershey Medical Center.

In a recent interview, Levine described her decision to transition about five years ago as “life-changing.”

“I’ve been addressing that issue all my life,” Levine told The Patriot News. “You don’t suddenly decide at 50-something that you’re transgender. Over the last 10 years, I’ve been investigating and exploring that. I hope I can serve as a mentor and role model for other LGBT people in Pennsylvania.”

Wolf acknowledged how Levine’s advisory role would play an important part in health-related issues.

medical, public and behavioral health.”

Levine graduated from Harvard College in 1979 and then Tulane University School of Medicine in 1983. She completed her training in pediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, where she practiced from 1988-93.

In addition to her role at Hershey Medical Center, she currently serves as liaison for LGBT affairs for the center’s Office of Diversity, where she mentors and assists LGBT students and staff. Levine has also worked as the faculty advisor for the university’s LGBT student group and started an LGBT staff and faculty affinity group.

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cess for appointees begins in the Senate Public Health & Welfare Committee and is expected to wrap up before the full Senate

by June.

“Dr. Levine is well-respected in the fields of pediatrics, psychiatry, and behavioral health, where she has practiced for close to three decades,” Wolf said in a statement.

“She has been a leading voice in efforts to treat teens with medical and psychological problems, as well as adults and children with eating disorders.”

Levine, a Middletown resident, is a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine, vice-chair for clinical affairs for its Department of

“It is important to me that we place equal emphasis on behavioral and physical health issues,” said Wolf. “Dr. Levine will bring expertise and wide-ranging knowledge to this important role advising the secretary of health and me on medical and public-health matters.”

Levine said she’s eager to explore the intersectionality of medical, mental and behavioral health.

While it would be a landmark achievement for the transgender community if Levine were confirmed, Wolf spokesperson Jeff Sheridan told The Patriot News, “Levine was chosen to be physician general not because she is transgender but because of her extensive background in the areas of

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“My family was very supportive of civil0rights issues, and luckily the path they chose for me as a lawyer was one that I very much wanted for myself as well.”

Facciolo’s father was best friends with James Gallow, who was the first ItalianAmerican judge in Delaware, according to Facciolo. Gallow, considered an uncle by Facciolo, had ties to Louis L. Redding, a Wilmington native, who was on the NAACP team in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.

Regardless of their approach, the lawyer-couple’s small firm has become a leading go-to for LGBTs in the area, especially for estate planning.

“About 80 percent of our estate work is with the LGBT community,” Minster said.

“People who have been married for 20, 30-plus years want to know what the benefit is to getting married now.”

One such perk to tying the knot is avoiding the 15-percent inheritance tax in Pennsylvania, Minster said.

“If you are married, then you do not have to pay the inheritance tax.”

Health and Social Security benefits are additional reasons, according to Minster, but are by no means the only ones, he said.

Another area the practice specializes in is family law, which besides divorce and custody issues also includes prenuptial agreements, which Minster says he has been doing a lot more work with since gay marriage became legal in Pennsylvania.

The Delaware office also handles criminal and traffic-law cases.

“We even do a surprising amount of Supreme Court cases, probably five-10 each year, “ said Facciolo.

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Bully Pulpit vs. Bully Controller audit of rec centers crossed the line

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ur City Controller, Alan Butkovitz, never misses an opportunity to call the press on his crusade to root out financial misfeasance and malfeasance in the operations of city government. No matter how small and insignificant such improper conduct may be.

But his yearlong audit of the bookkeeping practices of Philadelphia Recreation Advisory Councils (PARCs) is a just a step too far, or should we say, a step too small.

The headlines out of the Controller’s Office latest audit screamed: “Butkovitz Refers Audit Findings to District Attorney’s Office For Further investigation; City Controller Says Recreation Centers’ Bank Accounts At A High Risk of Impropriety.” Butkovitz and hyperbole go together like steak and Cheez Wiz. District attorney! High risk! Fraud! Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!

And who, in fact, is to be perp-walked into the Roundhouse for booking?

That would be Kathleen Goodwin, the former treasurer of the Fox Chase Recreation Center Advisory Council. The same Kathleen Goodwin who has organized a jobs network for local high school graduates, connecting them to neighborhood employers for full- or part-time jobs. The same Kathleen Goodwin who organizes the Fox Chase Ireland Dancers. The same Kathleen Goodwin who, from our cursory research, appears to be something of a neighborhood institution in the Fox Chase community. This community leader, in the eyes of Butkovitz, “raised our

level of skepticism regarding the potential for undetected fraudulent activity involving all of the accounts at the various recreation centers.” Oh, please.

And what was Ms. Goodwin’s crime? According to the audit, she “kept neither a general ledger for the account nor bank statements, and signed checks payable to herself. When she left — prior to the audit — she took all financial records with her.” An audit of the Fox Chase Bank account “revealed that the checks contained only one Advisory Council officer’s signature instead of two officers’ signatures, as required by the Advisory Council Manual.”

Our problem with this latest Butkovitz grand-

[Kathleen Goodwin] appears to be something of a neighborhood institution in the Fox Chase community. stand is not simply that, of all the multimillion dollar transactions engaged in by city officials and agencies on an annual basis, he chose to use his precious resources to conduct a formal audit on the Fox Chase Recreation Center. (Could he not simply have picked up the phone, called Park and Rec center head Michael DiBerardinis, and asked him to check into the financial dealings of the PARCs and tighten up their bookkeeping rather than spend a year tracking down Ms. Goodwin?) It is not that he then doubled down

Fox Chase Recreation Center. Photo courtesy phila.gov

on this audit, referring the case against Ms. Goodwin to the district attorney’s office.

Our problem runs deeper than that. You would think that if Ms. Goodwin was to become the face of PARCs gone bad, his office would at least have interviewed her to get her side of the story. According to Ms. Goodwin, and subsequently confirmed

by Butkovitz, his office NEVER TALKED TO GOODWIN. If it had, the auditors may have discovered that Kathleen Goodwin tells a much different story about her bookkeeping.

According to Goodwin, “Financial records were kept daily on the everyday activities at the Fox Chase Recreation Center while I was there.

I did detailed monthly financial reports for the entire recreation center’s activities, which included

summer camp, after school program, hockey, drama, dance, to name a few.”

And what was Butkovitz’s response to the charge that his auditors never spoke to the target of their audit? Butkovitz said “his office tried to contact her through the recreation center to no avail.”

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City Controller Alan Butkovitz. Photo courtesy philadelphiacontroller.org JAN. 18-25, 2015

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Bully Pulpit vs. Bully Continued from page 1 C’mon, Butkovitz. Your guys called the recreation center, got no answer and that’s it? Is it really that difficult to track down Ms. Goodwin? Didn’t seem that difficult for the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News to get her on the phone. According to the Inquirer, “Goodwin said when she heard the center was being audited, she expected a call that never came.”

We found Facebook pictures of her at Fox Chase Recreation Center with the Ireland Dancers. Didn’t anybody in your shop think to just show up at their next

rehearsal to talk to her face to face?

Even after DiBerardinis responded with a list of recommendations in response to the findings, Butkovitz still wants his pound of flesh, telling the Inquirer that “given the ‘high-risk’ findings, his office would audit other centers in due time.”

There is an equally high risk of a City Controller crossing the line from bully pulpit to just plain bully. And in the PARCs audit, Butkovitz crossed it.

Neumann-Goretti Girls Go National Continued from page 12 “We learned a lot from that loss and I think you’re seeing the results of that with inspired play now.” Said Martin: “I learned that you have to go into every game mentally prepared. We know exactly what we did wrong, it’s unfinished business. If we get the opportunity again, we’ll be more ready.”

For now, Peterson and company are enjoying the ride. “I know people have mentioned how [our boys team and our girls team] are like Connecticut with both of us winning. It’s not pressure so much, it’s just fun. I kind of fell into this position and I am enjoying it a lot. It’s nice to be part of this with the boys, too. They get along great with our girls and they like to hang out and joke around as one of us is getting off the court for practice and the other is coming on. The support from them has been great.”

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team stole the show at the girls’ showcase, many other teams and players also had great performances. Little League World Series star Mo’ne Davis, an eighth grader at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy, won MVP honors with a 10-point performance in a loss to Baldwin. Ashley Jones, a promising sophomore at Cheltenham who has Connecticut on her short list of colleges she hopes

Leaders for the ‘Next Level’ Youth program teaches teen leaders power of networking

by Sheila Simmons

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ichael Rice, community engagement specialist for the city’s Department of Human Services, tells the youngsters with whom he works, “One of the keys to leadership is the ability to establish relationships with powerful individuals.”

So he put the nearly two dozen youth aged 13 to 24 who make up the Philadelphia Youth Leadership Council in a room with a few, including Cindy Bass, Philadelphia city councilwoman; Tina Sloan Green, executive director of the Woman in Sports Foundation; Veronica Norris, a board member of the Coalition of Labor Union Women, and later, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey.

The room was at Philadelphia’s City Hall, and the exercise — to teach networking — came complete with business cards for the youth, and professional attire provided by Boyds Philadelphia, one of the finest clothing stores in the city, specializing in men’s attire.

“We hope that through this interaction, our city youth leaders will be inspired and motivated to ful-

will recruit her, scored 19 points and won MVP honors in a loss against Mt. St. Joseph’s. “It was a great day for girls’ basketball,” said Notre Dame assistant coach Linda Genther. “We love playing here every year and so do all the girls. No one leaves, they play in the morning and stay and see all the other teams all day. There’s nothing else like it in girls’ basketball.”

Members of the Youth Leadership Council pose with past speaker Sheinelle Jones. Photo courtesy of Youth Leadership Council.

Michael Rice works with the Philadelphia Youth Leadership Council.

Photo courtesy of the Youth Leadership Council

fill their true potential and provide real value to their communities, schools and families,” offered Emmit Brayboy, supervisor of the Family and Community Support Center, Community Engagement Unit, which sponsors the council.

Rice reflected, “We gave them training on how to network with people,” ticking off areas of guidance — “the smile, handshake, eye contact. My name is … . My age is … . I go to ‘what school’. That’s a nice suit you’re wearing. I’m impressed by the things you said.”

In a world increasingly separated into haves and have-nots, where the rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer, the program crosses boundaries and worlds, and then encourages youth to begin carving their own path forward.

The young leaders, from throughout the city as part of DHS’s Junior EPIC Stakeholders Group and nonprofits such as the Institute for the Development of African-American Youth, shaped the group’s agenda.

Calling themselves “Next Level Leaders,” they identified issues of gun violence, cyber bullying and dangers of social media, among the challenges and obstacles Philadelphia youth encounter on a daily basis.

They wrote and produced a public service announcement illustrating the dangers and consequences of the various issues. The end concludes, “What it boils down to is thinking before you act, utilizing good judgment and looking into the future and being able to respect the decision you make.”

Offered Rice, “I attend a lot of different meetings. In those meetings, adults are always talking about ‘community this,’ and ‘community that.’ Well, why not invite the community? Here, our youth don’t need anyone to speak for them. They’re sitting at the table.”

JAN. 18-25, 2015

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First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 10:00 AM. (EST) Conditions of Sheriff’s Sale for JUDICIAL/FORECLOSURE SALE Ten percent of the highest bid for each property auctioned off shall be deposited in 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 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 certified check, attorney’s check or money order with the Sheriff.

The balance of the purchase money must be deposited in 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 Philadel-

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phia 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 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

Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. 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, JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff City and County of Philadelphia

1502-303 53 West Seymour Street 19144 12th wd. 2396 Sq Ft BRT#123054800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Maxim Vovk C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 02378 $105,894.87 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-304 4240 M Street 191244911 33rd wd. 896 Sq Ft OPA#332463000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jose R. Alamo C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 03399 $42,957.35 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-305 1860 Nolan Street 19138 10th wd. 1426 Sq Ft BRT#102225100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Damon T. Walker a/k/a Damon T. Walker, Sr. C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 001381 $99,764.77 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-306 700 Montrose Street 191473919 2nd wd. 1344 Sq Ft OPA#021043200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Christopher J. Angelo; Natalie M. Angelo C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02465 $79,803.07 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-307 5431 Chester Avenue 191434913 51st wd. 1840 Sq Ft OPA#514128100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jacob Hasis C.P. March Term, 2009 No. 01204 $95,622.65 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-308 10834 Keswick Road 19154 66th wd. 1360 Sq Ft BRT#662098900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mary Anne B. Ware and Diane Ware C.P. April Term, 2014, No. 03664 $205,349.15 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1502-309 413 Friendship Street 191113907 35th wd. 1350 Sq Ft OPA#353177100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mahmoud Al Hachami a/k/a Mahmoud Riyadh Alasade C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 01306 $135,541.01 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-310 2740 Stevens Street 191493520 62nd wd. 928 Sq Ft OPA#621199200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Matthew P. Lally; Chrystal Lally C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02507 $132,583.89 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-311 9415 Woodbridge Road 19114 57th wd. 1452 Sq Ft BRT#572197455 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Miroslaw Gluchowski C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 002801 $251,878.84 Christopher A. DeNardo, Esquire

1502-312 1431-35 Vista Street 191113723 56th wd. 1232 Sq Ft OPA#561327200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Seyed Ahmad Ziabari a/k/a Seyad Ahmad Ziabari C.P. July Term, 2010 No. 02662 $162,898.62 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-313 2544 N. 11th Street 19133 37th wd. 2115 Sq Ft BRT#371195700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Shawn Moore C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00292 $93,613.19 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1502-314 3343 Conrad Street, Unit 302 19129 38th wd. 911 Sq Ft BRT#888380210 IMPROVEMENTS: RES.CONDO.4 STY MAS + OTHER Cristina I. Mascieri C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02101 $279,635.54 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1502-315 13054 Townsend Road, Unit J-4 19154-1001 66th wd.

1536 Sq Ft OPA#888660135 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM Lashawn D. Scott C.P. June Term, 2008 No. 05168 $59,070.96 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-316 5826 Baynton Street a/k/a 5826 Bayfon Street 19144 59th wd.

1088 Sq Ft BRT#591184600 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Jacob Stepansky C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02370 $81,030.89 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1502-317 8609 Rugby Street 191502705 50th wd. 1215 Sq Ft OPA#502105500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Margaret A. Jones; James E. Jones C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 04618 $100,449.53 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-318 7626 Wyndale Avenue 191512707 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#343178100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Crystal Y. Light a/k/a Crystal Light C.P. October Term, 2010 No. 01104 $90,900.56 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-319 5221 North 8th Street 19120 49th wd. 2064 Sq Ft BRT#492127100 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Adama Bracewell C.P. October Term, 2012 No. 01945 $168,539.91 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1502-320 904 East Chelten Avenue 19138 12th wd. 2641 Sq Ft BRT#122119600 Karen Smith C.P. January Term, 2007 No. 004483 $58,241.13 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1502-321 2010 Larry Street 19142 40th wd. 900 Sq Ft BRT#403196600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: LOT OR

PIECE OF GROUND WITH BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS Brooke F. Green C.P. September Term, 2010 No. 03722 $51,556.00 M. Jacqueline Larkin, Esquire 1502-322 4298 Parkside Avenue 19104 6th wd. 2016 Sq Ft BRT#062227700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Victor Bailey C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 3315 $80,651.28 Christopher A. DeNardo, Esquire 1502-323 5268 Arlington Street 19131 52nd wd. 1811 Sq Ft BRT#521122200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Claudia Parks and Ronald James Parks C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 02254 $72,461.43 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-324 2353 South Beulah Street 19148 39th wd. 944 Sq Ft BRT#393197400 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Tan Ngo and Lan Nguyen C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00935 $122,491.53 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1502-325 9331 Edmund Street 19114 65th wd. 2560 Sq Ft BRT#652390600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Laritza Del Valle and Justo Figuereo C.P. September Term, 2010 No. 02170 $471,483.45 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-326 2250 Disston Street 19149 54th wd. 1176 Sq Ft BRT#542065900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Susan Blatch a/k/a Susan Biatch C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02677 $61,993.15 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-327 5229 Westford Road 19120 42nd wd. 1480 Sq Ft BRT#421408000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Young Sook Chang C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 01404 $100,110.79 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1502-328 1336-38 North Conestoga Street 19131 4th wd. 1713 Sq Ft BRT#041294900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Camille E. Richardson C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 02802 $43,343.49 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-329 393 Hendrix Street 19116 58th wd. 2525 Sq Ft BRT#582329900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Alice Parveen Dean C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 01410 $279,474.19 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1502-330 266 West Wellens Avenue 19120 42nd wd. 1008 Sq Ft

NOTICE OF SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION The Sheriff will file in his office, The Land Title Building, 100 South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a

www.Officeof Philadelphia Sheriff.com SHERIFF’S SALE OF Tuesday, February 3, 2015 1502-301 1912 East Wensley Street 19134 45th wd. 1380 Sq Ft BRT#452055100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Vinh Dinh and Vu Dinh C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 00599 $97,702.32 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-302 9827 Cowden Street 191152314 58th wd. 1720 Sq Ft BRT#581462200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Karen D. Orlove C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 000381 $180,431.17 Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC

SHERIFF’S SALE BRT#422228200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Thomas E. Rice C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02495 $49,992.78 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-331 5247 Walnut Street 19139-4027 60th wd. 1500 Sq Ft; Beginning Point: Containing in front or breadth on the said Walnut Street 15’ and extending of that width in length or depth Northward between parallel lines at right angles to the said Walnut Street 112’2” to a certain 3’ wide alley BRT#602050000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Tefoni Young C.P. August Term, 2011 No. 03678 $104,391.90 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1502-332 5731 North Mascher Street 19120 61st wd. 1224 Sq Ft BRT#612439500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nancy E. Rodriguez a/k/a Nancy Rodriguez C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02620 $120,641.56 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-333 817 Tyson Avenue 19111-4428 53rd wd. 1404 Sq Ft; Beginning Point: Beginning at a point on the Northeasterly side of Tyson Avenue, one hundred feet wide, at the distance of one hundred ninety-five feet two inches Southeastwardly from the Southeasterly side of Montour Street, sixty feet wide OPA#532230800 IMPROVEMENTS: S/D W B/G 2S MASONRY Ashley White C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 03372 $271,747.72 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1502-334 4625 Wilbrock Street 19136 65th wd. 1024 Sq Ft BRT#652024000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Erica L. Wildonger C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02233 $99,927.74 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-335 5947 Reach Street 19120 35th wd. 1250 Sq Ft BRT#352242300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Philip S. Appenzeller and Tammy M. Lowe C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01527 $126,999.14 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-336 1011 Haworth Street 191242525 23rd wd. 2332 Sq Ft OPA#234164900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Johnny Young; Kim Young a/k/a Kim L. Young C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 02741 $248,787.08 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-337 3038 North Mascher Street 19133 7th wd. 1152 Sq Ft BRT#071113200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Margarita Rivera C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01368 $78,089.13 KML Law Group, P.C.

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1502-347 1378 Kimberly Drive 19151 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#343299000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Monica M. Cook C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 001668 $130,638.82 Christopher A. DeNardo, Esquire 1502-348 4453 North 4th Street 19140 7th wd. 1080 Sq Ft BRT#072147700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carmen G. Carrero C.P. April Term, 2011 No. 1289 $17,360.61 Christopher A. DeNardo, Esquire 1502-349 1506 South 58th Street 19143 3rd wd. 1800 Sq Ft BRT#034123900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sarah Scott C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 000708 $91,358.12 Christopher A. DeNardo, Esquire 1502-350 7435 Elmwood Avenue 19153 40th wd. 1050 Sq Ft BRT#404225100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mauricio Munoz and Kristy Munoz C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 1801 $128,112.17 Christopher A. DeNardo, Esquire 1502-351 2601 Pennsylvania Avenue, Unit 321 19130 15th wd. 1135 Sq Ft BRT#888072600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RES.CONDO .5+STY MASONRY Stuart Barnes C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01531 $66,770.73 Samantha D. Cissne, Esquire 1502-352 3480 Helen Street 19134 45th wd. 920 Sq Ft BRT#452356700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Judith Perez C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02694 $49,815.73 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-353 7156 North 19th Street 19126 10th wd. 1440 Sq Ft BRT#101122500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Joan R. Liggeons a/k/a Joan B. Liggeons C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 03740 $85,344.99 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-354 1429 South 32nd Street 191463411 36th wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#364458400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Renee Crystal Heath, in Her Capacity as Heir of Vernell J. Heath, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Vernell J. Heath a/k/a Vernell Heath, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 03203 $44,793.74 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-355 7242 Lawndale Avenue 19111 53rd wd. 1170 Sq Ft BRT#532388400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY Aura C. Barrera C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 03912 $127,991.98 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-356 123 Sparks Street 19120 61st wd. 1224 Sq Ft BRT#611269000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Harold T. Seamon C.P. November Term, 2011 No. 02994 $62,815.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-357 4111 Levick Street 19135 55th wd. 1296 Sq Ft BRT#552077500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony V. Hearst C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01478 $60,356.04 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-358 1726 East Washington Lane 19138 10th wd. 1500 Sq Ft BRT#102275300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs of Hubert G. Swaby, Deceased; Christopher Swaby, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Hubert G. Swaby, Deceased; Denva Wellington, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Hubert G. Swaby, Deceased; Keith Swaby, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Hubert G. Swaby, Deceased; Peter Swaby, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Hubert G. Swaby, Deceased; Angela Gardner a/k/a Angela Swaby Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Hubert G. Swaby, Deceased and Sharon Foster a/k/a Sharon Swaby, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Hubert G. Swaby, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 02328 $44,738.86 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-359 832 East Thayer Street 19134 33rd wd. 1260 Sq Ft BRT#331142700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Anna Ravelo, Deceased and Carol Gunderson, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Anna Ravelo, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 01104 $71,336.03 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-360 6551 Ditman Street 19135 41st wd. 1140 Sq Ft BRT#411241800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yischor D. Friedman a/k/a Yischor Dov Friedman C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01407 $89,152.09 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-361 6215 Haverford Avenue 19151 34th wd. 1680 Sq Ft BRT#342004500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stafford Malcolm C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01479 $55,101.93 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-362 5936 Loretto Avenue 19149 53rd wd. 1312 Sq Ft BRT#531310200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

PROPERTY Ayda L. Charris C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02781 $122,376.29 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-363 6207 Limekiln Pike 191411405 17th wd. 1212 Sq Ft OPA#172304500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Donald Outterbridge C.P. June Term, 2010 No. 01983 $125,698.61 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-364 1434 Faunce Street 191113302 56th wd. 1060 Sq Ft OPA#561387900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maureen Orliw a/k/a Maureen E. Orliw C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 03687 $90,231.77 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-365 7266 Mansfield Avenue 191381621 10th wd. 1840 Sq Ft OPA#102357000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael Herbert C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 03071 $166,228.75 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-366 1332 Faunce Street 191113344 56th wd. 1848 Sq Ft OPA#561386500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY V. Samuel a/k/a Varghese Samuel C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01784 $216,545.28 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-367 7211 North Broad Street 19126-1729 61st wd. 1248 Sq Ft OPA#611214100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Juan Coreano C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 03660 $230,120.09 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-368 4468 Almond Street 19137 45th wd. 1411 Sq Ft BRT#453194600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James P.R. Visconto; Kathleen Visconto C.P. May Term, 2010 No. 00147 $161,904.73 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-369 2740 Mifflin Street 19145 48th wd. 1100 Sq Ft BRT#48-20423-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James Hall a/k/a James Hall, Sr. a/k/a James D. Hall, Sr. C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01924 $183,983.53 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-370 1105 Wellington Street 19111-4238 53rd wd. 1314 Sq Ft OPA#532341200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Antonio D’Angelo; Carlo D’Angelo; Maria D’Angelo C.P. June Term, 2012 No. 02410 $92,688.82 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-371 1101 E. Slocum Street, #B 19150 50th wd. On Northwesterly side of Slocum Street and Northeast side of Lowber

Avenue; Front: 2120 Ft, Depth: Irregular BRT#502394600 IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Andrea Dale White C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01110 $110,935.85 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1502-372 522 Johnston Street 19148 39th wd. 1440 Sq Ft BRT#395038100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Anita Mai a/k/a Yanfang Mai a/k/a Anita Yanfang Mai; Tony Tsang C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 01816 $88,698.46 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-373 617 North Union Street 19104 24th wd. 730 Sq Ft BRT#242233000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eloise Jackson, single woman C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 00187 $72,942.48 Zucker, Goldberg & Ackerman, LLC 1502-374 115 S. 55th Street 19139 60th wd. 2268 Sq Ft BRT#603163700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Colin C. Blackwood and United States of America C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02487 $131,741.36 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1502-375 4715 Melrose Street 19137 45th wd. 870 Sq Ft BRT#453448300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James Duffy and Stephen Scialdone, Solely in His Capacity as Administrator of the Estate of Cecilia Scialdone, a/k/a Cecelia Scialdone, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 01758 $48,898.66 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-376 6751 North 17th Street 19126 10th wd. 1312 Sq Ft BRT#101047700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs of Mary E. Bailey a/k/a Mary Bailey, Deceased; Mary Bailey, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Mary E. Bailey a/k/a Mary Bailey, Deceased; Mable Ruth Jones, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Mary E. Bailey, a/k/a Mary Bailey, Deceased and Marquis Bailey, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Mary E. Bailey, a/k/a Mary Bailey, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02660 $108,323.68 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-377 5458 Morse Street 19131 52nd wd. 1206 Sq Ft BRT#522023600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Brenda Stokes C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 02604 $75,988.74 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-378 1207-11 65th Ave 19126 49th wd. 2492 Sq Ft BRT#493062405 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL

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1502-339 4737 Shelmire Street a/k/a 4737 Shelmire Avenue 19149 65th wd. 1280 Sq Ft BRT#651055200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jason Jordan C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02362 $63,657.04 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-340 171 E. Herman Street 19144 59th wd. 1108 Sq Ft BRT#592089700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joy Carter, in Her Capacity as Administratrix of the Estate of Yvonne Carter, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04734 $75,818.87 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-341 200 West Ashdale Street 19120-3812 42nd wd. 1120 Sq Ft OPA#422172800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gregory Holmes C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 03300 $31,668.90 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-342 4828 A Street 19120-3941 42nd wd. 1350 Sq Ft; Beginning Point: Situate on the West side of “A” Street at the distance of 37 feet 1 inch and Northward from the North side of Eleanor Street BRT#421292500 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 2 STY MAS+OTHER Rose Montanez C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 03829 $170,397.92 Richard J. Nalbandian, III 1502-343 7137 Erdrick Street 19135 41st wd. 1292 Sq Ft BRT#412250600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eric M. Metzger C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02545 $155,432.44 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-344 2035 S. Alden Street 19143 40th wd. Land Area: 795 Sq Ft, Improvement Area: 1080 Sq Ft OPA#401014900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE - SINGLE FAMILY DWELLING Easton Thompson C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 00394 $56,467.99 plus interest to date of sale Robert J. Wilson, Esq., Wilson Law Firm 1502-345 7329 Tabor Avenue 19111 56th wd. 1350 Sq Ft OPA#561038900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Estate of Christine DellaValle, Deceased C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 002335 $68,039.46 Joseph R. Loverdi, Esquire 1502-346 2159 Homer Street 19138 10th wd. 1188 Sq Ft BRT#102140100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Naiphesa Hilliard C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 01486 $159,936.17 Stern & Eisenberg PC

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DWELLING Estate of Lenore Wansley c/o Craig Jackson, Personal Representative; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Lenore Wansley, Deceased and Craig Jackson, Personal Representative of the Estate of Lenore Wansley C.P. July Term, 2010 No. 00657 $174,643.95 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-379 229 West Spencer Street a/k/a 229 West Spencer Street 19120 61st wd. 1140 Sq Ft BRT#611218500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Donna M. Adolphus C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01193 $40,770.82 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-380 2215 South 67th Street 19142 40th wd. 1676 Sq Ft BRT#403047000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jerome K. Browne C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 03408 $140,135.05 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-381 122 South 11th Street 19107 5th wd. 3520 Sq Ft BRT#882618600 Subject To Mortgage None other than the mortgage foreclosed by the Plaintiff, LCP Philly LLC IMPROVEMENTS: 3520 SQUARE FOOT PORTION OF A 9166 SQUARE FOOT RESTAURANT; BALANCE OF IMPROVEMENTS COVER ADJACENT LOT NOT OWNED

BY DEFENDANTS. BIDDERS SHOULD REFER TO WRIT OF EXECUTION FOR 124 SOUTH 11TH STREET, CASE ID NO. 140303069, JUDGMENT AGAINST 124 A Gus and Joyce Hionas C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03069 $3,634,060.14 plus continuing interest and costs Christine L. Barba, Ballard Spahr, LLP 1502-382 124 South 11th Street 19107 5th wd. 1716 Sq Ft BRT#882618700 Subject To Mortgage None other than the mortgage foreclosed by the Plaintiff, LCP Philly LLC IMPROVEMENTS: 6688 SQUARE FOOT PORTION OF A 6688 SQUARE FOOT RESTAURANT; BALANCE OF IMPROVEMENTS COVER ADJACENT LOT NOT OWNED

BY DEFENDANT. BIDDERS SHOULD REFER TO WRIT OF EXECUTION FOR 122 SOUTH 11TH STREET, CASE ID NO. 140303071 JUDGEMENT AGAINST GUS AN 124 Associates C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03071 $3,634,060.14 plus continuing interest and costs Christine L. Barba, Ballard Spahr, LLP 1502-383 1940 East Clarence Street 19134 45th wd. 1009 Sq Ft BRT#452120300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sylvia Walker

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1502-392 1522 East Johnson Street 19138 10th wd. 1344 Sq Ft BRT#102296600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Kraig L. Henry, Sr. and Sona M. Henry C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01830 $170,464.82 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-393 508 East Gorgas Lane 191191321 22nd wd. 2566 Sq Ft BRT#222109600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Shari Anderson, Gwendolyn Russell and Carol Peoples C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02981 $331,680.55 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-395 4941 North 7th Street 19120 49th wd. 1076 Sq Ft BRT#491207500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Doris E. Hogue, Individually and in Her Capacity as Heir of Geneva R. Hogue, Deceased; Jerry Marlin, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Geneva R. Hogue, Deceased; Lois McFadden, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Geneva R. Hogue, Deceased; Myrtle Hogue, Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Geneva R. Hogue, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03261 $43,241.35 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-396 110 West Byberry Road Building O #7 19116 58th wd. 928 Sq Ft; Together with all right, titled and interest being a 14.83% undivided interest of, in and to the common elements as set forth in the aforesaid Declaration of Condominium BRT#888581611 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Carol A. Larkin, Deceased, and Timothy Wheeler, Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Carol A. Larkin, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02432 $69,690.88 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-397 5014 Cottage Street 19124 62nd wd. 996 Sq Ft BRT#622374800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sonjia Porter C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 00086 $29,516.30 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-398 1803 Megargee Street 19152 56th wd. 1304 Sq Ft BRT#562225400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mathew P. Chacko and Ann Amma Mathew C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 01380 $215,576.54 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-399 314 Pensdale Street 19128 21st wd. 1490 Sq Ft BRT#212057700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Catherine A. Sponburgh a/k/a Catherine Ann Sponburgh C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00832 $136,859.30

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C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02820 $64,945.66 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-458 1475 Lardner Street 19149 54th wd. 970 Sq Ft BRT#541036400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Roberto Rodriguez C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02294 $60,804.63 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-459 7508 Sherwood Road 19151 34th wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#343235600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Charlene S. Graham C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01190 $106,588.41 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-460 6521 Ross Street 19119 22nd wd. 1056 Sq Ft BRT#221222300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Judy Spearman C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 01885 $33,343.92 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-461 8120 Forrest Avenue 19150 50th wd. 1260 Sq Ft BRT#502200200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Leonard James C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01084 $103,391.66 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-462 605 East Gorgas Lane 191191325 22nd wd. 2572 Sq Ft OPA#222119900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Paul Hutchinson; Madeleine Hutchinson C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 00170 $282,826.06 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-463 131 West Sharpnack Street 19119 22nd wd. 2671 Sq Ft BRT#223046200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Bertram W. Todd, Jr. C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 01125 $208,331.23 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-464 2637 Emerald Street 19125 31st wd. 1260 Sq Ft BRT#311086200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Edward Guzman C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02105 $28,827.86 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-465 7905 Caesar Place 19153 40th wd. 1400 Sq Ft BRT#405814500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE The Unknown Heirs, Executors and Devisees of the Estate of Patricia Davis C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 02362 $72,860.58 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-466 2410 North 53rd Street 19131 52nd wd. 1950 Sq Ft BRT#521337000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Shawn Fordham C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 02533 $462,467.73 Stern & Eisenberg PC

1502-467 2220 Ellsworth Street 19146 36th wd. 1208 Sq Ft BRT#361240300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Eloise N. Haines, deceased C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00711 $135,135.88 Sarah K. McCaffery, Esquire 1502-468 423 East Eleanor Street 19120 42nd wd. 1216 Sq Ft BRT#421107900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raheema JonesHoward C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 03240 $88,139.07 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-469 2854 Cantrell Street 19145 48th wd. 960 Sq Ft BRT#482090600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michael J. Rago C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 00941 $96,994.81 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-470 3940 North Smedley Street 19140 13th wd. 1426 Sq Ft BRT#131200300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bernice Walker C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01481 $75,345.73 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-471 6713 Torresdale Avenue 19135 41st wd. 1600 Sq Ft BRT#412410400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Paul Bernard and Andrea Bryan C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 02204 $140,838.84 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-472 1608 East McPherson Street 19150 50th wd. 1320 Sq Ft BRT#501496900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Douglas L. Dunbar C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 02037 $156,619.61 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-474 47 Bonnie Gellman Court Unit # B47 19114 57th wd.

1176 Sq Ft BRT#888570294 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Michael Dvorkin C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 00107 $172,347.81 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-475 2576 Collins Street 19125 31st wd. 1289 Sq Ft BRT#311197600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Michael Williams C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02898 $67,017.61 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1502-476 1133 Princeton Avenue 19111 53rd wd. 1408 Sq Ft BRT#532287700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Monica Childs and James V. Childs, Jr. C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01305 $195,130.73 Martha E. Von

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Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1502-477 2123 S. 21st Street 191453502 48th wd. On the east side of 21st Street distance of 171’7” southward from the south side of Snyder Avenue; Front: 15’5”, Depth: 98’6”; 1710 Sq Ft BRT#481365200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE Hoang M. Tran Do and Tram A. Do C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02601 $53,291.18 Stephen M. Hladik, Esq. 1502-478 248-250 Market Street 19106 5th wd. 12500 Sq Ft OPA#881007027 Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: APTS 5-50 UNITS; MASONRY; ZONING CODE DESCRIPTION: CMX3; COMMERCIAL/COMMERCIAL MIXED-USE Giuliano Properties, Inc. C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01502 $1,983,955.15 together with interest accruing at the per annum rate of 6.00% after July 29, 2013. Total amount due as of February 3, 2015 is $2164630.96 Louise Melchor, Esquire 1502-479 8843 Revere Street 19152 57th wd. 1107 Sq Ft BRT#571217100 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING John Pursell C.P. August Term, 2013, No. 01373 $47,969.46 Law Offices of Gregory Javardian 1502-480 4023 North 12th Street 191402101 43rd wd. 1440 Sq Ft OPA#433161600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cameron Scales C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 03281 $36,362.52 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-481 1431-39 N. 52nd Street 191314430 44th wd. 7182 Sq Ft BRT#882931970 IMPROVEMENTS: MIXED USE Malaika Reid C.P. August Term, 2009 No. 995 $689,000.00 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP, Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1502-482 219 Krams Avenue, Unit A-2 19128 21st wd. 648 Sq Ft and 6.89% undivided interest in the common elements, as more fully described in the Declaration of Condominium of 219 Krams Avenue Condominium Dated March 19, 2004 and recorded in the Department of Records in and for the County of Philadelphia at the Commonwealth of Pa. In Deed Book on March 25m 2994 Document ID no.

50892201 BRT#88-8211464; PRCL# 160-N-12-222 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM Geoffrey Harbaugh a/k/a Jeff Harbaugh C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 306585 $12,097.50 Glenn M.

Ross, Esquire 1502-483 305 Governors Court 19146 30th wd. Res. Condo 3.5 Sty Masonry; 2200 Sq Ft BRT#888300714 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Boris Kagan and Alexander Kats C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 01128 $629,125.95 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-484 2301 West Somerset Street 19132 11th wd. 1904 Sq Ft (Improvement Area) OPA#871515210 Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE KHFG Properties, Inc. C.P. July 2014 Term, Case No. 002028 $124,304.66 plus costs Lachall, Cohen & Sagnor LLP 1502-485 1243 East Oxford Street 19125 18th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1050 Sq Ft BRT#181082900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael P. Dixon and United States of America c/o United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00187 $180,561.64 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-486 3052 Helen Street 19134 25th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1268 Sq Ft BRT#252521600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Angelina Rivera and Carlos Jimenez C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 03183 $27,912.89 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-487 1912 North 31st Street 19121 32nd wd. 1743 Sq Ft (Improvement Area) OPA#871542890 Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: THREE STORY ROW HOUSE KHF Properties, LLC C.P. July 2014 Term, Case No. 001342 $124304.66, plus costs Lachall, Cohen & Sagnor LLP 1502-488 651 N. 56th Street 19131 4th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1676 Sq Ft BRT#041215900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Louis Stevens and Kim Stevens C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 00341 $74,493.39 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-489 7905 Fox Run Lane 19111 63rd wd. Det W/Gar 2 Sty Frame; 2080 Sq Ft PRCL#631179803 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joe L. Barreto, Betsy D. Delgado C.P. July Term, 2009 No. 03442 $312,982.79 Federman & Associates, LLC 1502-490 1935 South Ithan Street 19143 51st wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 990 Sq Ft BRT#514226200 Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Shakira Bradley C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03407 $61,348.58 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C.

1502-491 1125 Gilham Street 19111 53rd wd. S/D W B/G 2S Masonry; 1452 Sq Ft BRT#531167900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Pola Kaufman C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00359 $197,663.11 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-492 2016 72nd Avenue 19138 10th wd. Row Conv/Apt 2 Sty Masonry; 1732 Sq Ft PRCL#101-2944-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sarah E. Parham C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04006 $33,715.75 Federman & Associates, LLC 1502-493 3400-02 Goodman Street 19140 43rd wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 952 Sq Ft BRT#432144200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Veonca M. Ebron C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03717 $31,494.69 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-494 5715-17 Reach Street 19120 35th wd. Semi/Det 2.5 Sty Masonry; 1584 Sq Ft BRT#351310710 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Angela Woodward, Administratrix of the Estate of Crystal M. Wilkerson a/k/a Crystal Wilkerson, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01733 $79,156.91 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-495 1925 Harrison Street 19124 23rd wd. Row Conv/Apt 2 Sty Masonry; 1202 Sq Ft BRT#232213215 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robert D. Wilson C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03866 $98,627.57 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-496 11739 Waldemire Drive 19154 66th wd. Row B/Gar 1Sty Masonry; 1000 Sq Ft PRCL#662132100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Thomas F. Meeks, Sr., Elaine Meeks a/k/a Elaine E. Meeks C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00670 $130,319.62 Federman & Associates, LLC 1502-497 1870 Schiller Street 19134 45th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1093 Sq Ft BRT#452098600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Antonio Serrano, a/k/a Antonio Serrano, Jr. C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 02548 $51,896.11 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-498 607B Edison Avenue 19116 58th wd. 1040 Sq Ft and 1.0526% undivided interest in the common elements, as more fully described in the Declaration of Condominium and Plats and Plans dated 1/26/1979 and recorded 01/29/1979 in Deed Book DCC 16567 page

9 BRT#888581360; PRCL# 160 N7-29 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM Mark A. Cummings C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 235779 $12,086.00 Glenn M. Ross, Esquire 1502-499 755 S. 15th Street 19146 30th wd. 2444 Sq Ft; Row 3 Story Masonry BRT#301269900; PRCL#6S1-209 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Michael S. Jackson, Lurube Developers, LLC C.P. November Term, 2010 No. 03326 $675,078.14 Federman & Associates, LLC 1502-500 428 N. 13th Street, Unit #3-H 19123 5th wd. 1301 Sq Ft and 3.61% undivided interst in the common elements, as more fully described in the Declaration of Condominium of 428 North 13th Street Condominium dated 9/1/2001 and recorded 11/26/2001 as Document ID no. 50362646 BRT#888030140; PRCL#3N-20-112 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM William R. Firth, III C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 276118 $10,495.87 Glenn M. Ross, Esquire 1502-501 2760 Island Avenue 19153 40th wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#405-7534-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Dawn Brown; Gregory A. Brown, Sr. C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01011 $168,088.19 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-502 3433 Saint Vincent Street 19149 55th wd. 1480 Sq Ft BRT#551452400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Denise Debilzen and Edward Debilzen C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 03071 $217,760.63 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-503 5432 Cedar Avenue 19143 46th wd. 1220 Sq Ft BRT#463047100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Flossie Beale; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under J.B. a/k/a Janius Alton Beale; Gwendolyn Beale, Known Heir of Flossie Beale and J.B. a/k/a Junius Alton Beale; Marianne Beale, Known Heir of Flossie Beale and J.B. a/k/a Junius Alton Beale; Margaret Beale, Known Heir of Flossie Beale and J.B. a/k/a Junius Alton Beale; Brenda Beale, Known Heir of Flossie Beale and J.B. a/k/a Junius Alton Beale; Junius Beale, Jr., Known Heir of Flossie Beale and J.B. a/k/a Junius Alton Beale; Flossie Beale, Last Record Owner

and J.B. a/k/a Junius Alton Beale, Last Record Owner C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 01660 $83,720.03 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-504 7231 Walker Street 19135 41st wd. 1272 Sq Ft BRT#412278600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph L. Midiri C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 004073 $141,428.17 Sarah K. McCaffery, Esquire 1502-505 3818 Lauriston Street 19128 21st wd. 1216 Sq Ft BRT#212141100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frank O. Copestick C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 002803 $186,516.62 Sarah K. McCaffery, Esquire 1502-506 1914 Ashley St 19138 10th wd.

1362 Sq Ft BRT#101359500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Treadwell Real Estate, Inc C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 3824 $88,131.03 Bruce M. Dolfman 1502-507 1865 Frankford Ave 19125 18th wd. 2220 Sq Ft BRT#181013400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY 1865 Frankford Avenue, LLC C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 1318 $236,950.67 Bruce M. Dolfman 1502-508 1222 S. Ruby St 19143 51st wd. 918 Sq Ft BRT#511247700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY JTM Investments, LLC C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 3804 $25,889.35 Bruce M. Dolfman 1502-509 2666 E. Huntingdon St 19125 31st wd. 1408 Sq Ft BRT#314145900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cornerstone Real Estate Holdings, LLC C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 1296 $154,246.77 Bruce M. Dolfman 1502-510 5938 Crystal Street 19120 35th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1008 Sq Ft BRT#352219000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Frank Myers, Known Surviving heir of Stephanie Myers, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Stephanie A. Myers a/k/a Stephanie Myers, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. July Term, 2007 No. 00126 $20,050.21 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-511 2461 North Garnet Street 19132 16th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1054 Sq Ft BRT#162100400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Eva Gordon C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 00919 $29,063.18 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-512 2620 South 2nd Street 19148 39th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry;

951 Sq Ft BRT#391291300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Nancy E. Gatineau f/k/a Nancy Ellen Merritt and Dorothy Merritt C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 02724 $140,908.49 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-513 3232 Princeton Avenue 19149 55th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1104 Sq Ft BRT#551382500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Anthony Havrilla and Susan M. Havrilla C.P. September Term, 2011 No. 00264 $145,013.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-514A 4023 N. 8th Street 19140 43rd wd. 1260 Sq Ft BRT#43-31167-00 Miqueas Santana C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 2533 $40,249.69 Darci A. Fischer, Esquire; Banks & Banks 1502-514B 4159 N. Reese Street 19140 43rd wd. 870 Sq Ft BRT#43-32279-00 Miqueas Santana C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 2533 $40,249.69 Darci A. Fischer, Esquire; Banks & Banks 1502-515 541 Washington Street 191474005 2nd wd. 672 Sq Ft OPA#021143500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Roserita R. Depiano a/k/a Rose Rita De Piano; Dennis Maryak C.P. February Term, 2011 No. 02914 $170,000.00 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-516 5731 Baltimore Avenue 19143 46th wd. 1816 Sq Ft BRT#463159200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Conchita Lee and Cornelius Lee C.P. April Term, 2008 No. 02253 $134,658.38 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-517 8528 Tolbut Street 191521211 56th wd. 1060 Sq Ft OPA#562417700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Imre Kiraly; Magda Kiraly; Richard T. Kiraly a/k/a Richard Thomas Kiraly C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 01250 $185,330.08 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-518 241 South 6th Street Apt 211 a/k/a 241 South 6th Street, Apt 211A, a/k/a 241 South 6th Street, Unit 211A 19106-3728 5th wd. 777 Sq Ft OPA#888051135 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM William Langheim C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 01474 $214,635.97 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-519 9313 Germania Street 19114 65th wd. 1880 Sq Ft BRT#652-433310 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Daniel Palucis; Tamara Palucis a/k/a Tamara M. Palucis C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01322 $138,952.37 Udren Law Offices, P.C.

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1502-520A 6013 R Horrocks Street 191493335 62nd wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#621357500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marvin A. Burke C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02655 $65,236.80 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-520B 6013 Horrocks Street 191493335 62nd wd. 1224 Sq Ft OPA#621356600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marvin A. Burke C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02655 $65,236.80 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-521 6210 Algon Avenue 19111 53rd wd. Apt 2-4 Unts 2 Sty Masonry; 1600 Sq Ft BRT#531206400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Roberta Martello n/k/a Roberta Lucas C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 03488 $135,467.54 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-522 2833 South 65th Street 19142 40th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1056 Sq Ft BRT#406001303 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sarita M. Dawkins C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 01180 $156,313.68 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-523 824 East Locust Avenue 19138-2320 12th wd. 1042 Sq Ft OPA#122065200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tyrone S. Moyer a/k/a Tyrone Moyer C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 03102 $87,392.94 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-524 2709 South Alder Street 19148-4908 39th wd. 960 Sq Ft BRT#395260500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joseph Micali; Lisa Micali C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 00302 $144,715.22 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-525 6406 Belfield Avenue 191193906 22nd wd. 1048 Sq Ft OPA#221242900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mary L. Carter C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02474 $102,041.85 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-526 3687 Belgrade Street 19134 45th wd. 1408 Sq Ft BRT#451-3302-85 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jeancey Montanez C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01452 $260,593.44 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-527 12732 Knights Road 19154 66th wd. 900 Sq Ft BRT#663-365936 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles A. Dabydeen; Shanaz Dabydeen a/k/a Shanaaz Dabydeen C.P. April Term, 2006 No. 00961

$25,209.19 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-528 1231 Kerper Street 19111 53rd wd. (formerly part of the 35th wd.) 1472 Sq Ft BRT#532106000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Eli Moyal; Toni Moyal C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 03132 $91,853.51 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-529 6619 Upland Street 19142 40th wd. 1200 Sq Ft OPA#403120600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY My Nguyet Le and Lena Le C.P. March Term, 2010 No. 00515 $33,197.72 Brett A. Solomon, Michael C. Mazack 1502-530 7236 Hegerman Street 19135 65th wd. 840 Sq Ft BRT#651-2807-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ronald Gilmore a/k/a Ronald R. Gilmore; Jennifer Wilson a/k/a Jennifer A. Wilson C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 02167 $87,786.61 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-531 6818 Wyncote Avenue 19138 10th wd. 1044 Sq Ft BRT#102096800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING JSK, LLC C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 748 $61,702.99 Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby, LLP, Sarah A. Elia, Esq. 1502-532 819 Caledonia Street 191281104 21st wd. 2248 Sq Ft OPA#214116265 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James R. Barkley; Kimberly L. Barkley C.P. August Term, 2009 No. 03837 $347,843.74 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-533 7522 Beverly Road 19138 15th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1440 Sq Ft BRT#501365600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Catherine V. Rorls C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 03195 $115,598.26 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-534 6336 Hegerman Street 19135 41st wd. 992 Sq Ft BRT#411-365800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Megan M. Bower C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01947 $136,896.41 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-535 398 Fairway Terrace 19128 21st wd. 906 Sq Ft BRT#212-2848-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Susan D. Spada C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 00871 $207,720.41 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-536 6569 North Lambert Street 19138 10th wd. Row Conv/ Apt 2 Sty Masonry; 1240 Sq Ft BRT#102084600 IMPROVE-

MENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Trymanye Reid and Hartzell C. Reid, Jr. C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 04308 $108,064.20 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-537 994 Pratt Street 191241718 23rd wd. 1548 Sq Ft OPA#233055700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Janeen Watson; Bruce Watson C.P. November Term, 2012 No. 02956 $182,555.54 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-538 3004 W Oxford Street 19121 29th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry PRCL#292224000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Douglas Hart, Jr. a/k/a Douglas R. Hart, Jr; Anntwinette Hart C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 004065 $96,337.08 Federman & Associates, LLC 1502-539 1934 Dallas Street 19138 10th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1344 Sq Ft BRT#101286200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Denice Williams C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 03097 $46,114.04 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-540 6862 North 19th Street 19126 10th wd. S/D W B/G 2S Masonry; 1728 Sq Ft BRT#101118200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Keisha Spruill C.P. February Term, 2014 No. 01402 $254,633.96 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-541 943 East Sedgwick Street 19150 50th wd. S/D W B/G 2S Masonry; 1720 Sq Ft BRT#502431300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James S. Fields C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03451 $228,609.26 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-542 2207 Kimball Street 191462523 30th wd. 784 Sq Ft BRT#302243000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STORY MASONRY Harry Befumo, Original Mortgagor and Astrid Befumo, Real Owner C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 02507 $280,436.25 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1502-543 2176 Furley Street 19138 17th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 970 Sq Ft BRT#171113300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Dorothy O. Johnson a/k/a Dorothy Johnson and United States of America C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 01685 $54,193.20 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-544 356 East Meehan Avenue 19119 22nd wd. 1657 Sq Ft BRT#222089100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Frenchy Risco a/k/a Ferdinand Frenchy Risco a/k/a Ferdinand Risco C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01728

$239,047.27 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1502-545 7962 Fayette Street 19150 50th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1176 Sq Ft BRT#502285400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sandra Maude Ellis, Administratrix of the Estate of Jessie May Ellis, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02633 $110,270.29 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-546 1835 Forrestal Street 191455444 48th wd. 1152 Sq Ft BRT#262341000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Michael Collazzo a/k/a Michael M. Collazzo a/k/a Michael Collazzo III and Rita Marie Collazzo a/k/a Rita M. Collazzo C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 02364 $164,592.63 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1502-547 3735 North 6th Street 19140 43rd wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1366 Sq Ft BRT#432257500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Eluid Cruz and Aida R. Santiago C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 02964 $40,992.96 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-548 4262 Franklin Street 19140 43rd wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1230 Sq Ft BRT#433341000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Joel Kestenbaum and Joel Phillip C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 03864 $49,559.24 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-549 6817 Vandike Street 19135 41st wd. Semi Det 2 Sty Masonry; 1020 Sq Ft BRT#412424800 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Carolina Rios C.P. July Term, 2007 No. 03895 $103,031.69 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-550 2030 South Larry Street 19142 40th wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#403197300 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STORY MASONRY Lexlie Jefferson and Joe L. Jefferson, Jr. C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01013 $51,200.00 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1502-551 802 West Fisher Avenue 19141 42nd wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1152 Sq Ft BRT#492041200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Delores L. Harris, Administratrix of the Estate of Dorothy M. Harris, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 03202 $67,418.67 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-552 2211 South Colorado Street 19145 26th wd. Land area 680 Sq Ft, improvement area 1008 Sq Ft BRT#262021400 Subject

to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mikhael Lobanov C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 02213 $144,547.32 Elizabeth S. Gallard, Esquire 1502-553 3411 Capri Dr a/k/a 3411 Capri Court 19145 26th wd.

2754 Sq Ft OPA#26-2-375200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW W/GAR 2.5 STY MASONRY Steven Kujolic and Maria A. Kujolic C.P. December Term, 2012, No. 978 $476,336.09 plus interest through the date of the sheriff ’s sale, plus costs William J. Levant, Esquire 1502-554 2329 South Hemberger Street 19145 48th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1120 Sq Ft BRT#482236300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephen E. Teti, Sr, Known Surviving Heirs of Vincent Teti, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and Unknown Heirs of Vincent Teti, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 04065 $67,749.57 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-555 12112 Ranier Road 19154 66th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1360 Sq Ft BRT#663266500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Yolanda Rivera and Richard Hoffman C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 04643 $243,769.99 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-556 2617 South Hicks Street 19145-4621 26th wd. 960 Sq Ft OPA#261189800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Angelo Vinciguerra a/k/a Angelo W. Vinciguerra C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00480 $235,187.13 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-557 258 West Somerville Avenue 19120 42nd wd. 1350 Sq Ft BRT#422273300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tyrone Hill, As Admnistrator of the Estate of Diana Owens, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 04117 $78,597.71 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-558 2112 South Lambert Street 19145 48th wd. Row W/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1316 Sq Ft BRT#481354400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Hoang T. Ngo a/k/a Hoang Tu Ngo C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 02120 $87,615.93 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-559 2041 Lansing Street 191523609 56th wd. 1306 Sq Ft OPA#561482000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bhumiben T. Patel a/k/a Bhumiben Patel a/k/a Bhumibent Patel; Tushar R. Patel a/k/a Tushar Patel C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 01483

$165,522.52 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-560 2626 Oakford Street 19146 36th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1048 Sq Ft BRT#362048700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Bruce Powell and Sedelle Powell C.P. September Term, 2009 No. 00354 $75,905.69 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-561 3618 Tulip Street 19134 45th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 972 Sq Ft BRT#451433100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Phyllis L. Gallagher and Casimir G. Gallagher C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 00449 $62,863.64 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-562 413 Titan Street 19147 2nd wd.

1760 Sq Ft BRT#021316910 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Wanda D. Davis C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 03224 $129,606.58 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-563 5503 Hunter Street 19131 4th wd. Semi Det 2 Sty Masonry; 1537 Sq Ft BRT#041263200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Deanna Elyse Washington C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 00502 $122,984.53 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-564 7958 Provident Road 191501325 50th wd. 1172 Sq Ft OPA#501171400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dwight M. Mills C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 02616 $150,111.60 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-565 9232 Grace Lane 19115 63rd wd. Det W/B Gar 2 Sty Mas. + Other; 1979 Sq Ft BRT#632224300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Rochelle M. Fellman, Known Surviving Heir of Esther Abrams, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner, Phyllis Brumberg, Known Surviving Heir of Esther Abrams, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner, Unknown Surviving Heirs of Esther Abrams, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and Mark Abrams, Known Surviving Heir of Esther Abrams, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 02661 $205,302.48 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-566 6150 Van Dyke Street a/k/a Vandike Street 19135 41st wd.

Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1056 Sq Ft BRT#411332300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Yischor Dov Friedman c/o Moishe Friedman C.P. March Term, 2014 $67,369.05 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-567 8131 Williams Avenue 19150 50th wd. 1088 Sq Ft

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BRT#502267000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert Tarboro, III, Individually as heir and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Robert Lee Tarboro, Jr., Deceased and Stacie Tarboro, Individually as heir and CoAdministrator of the Estate of Robert Lee Tarboro, Jr., Deceased C.P. July Term, 2010 No. 02181 $198,468.31 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-568 8200 Rose Petal Drive 19111 56th wd. Det W/Gar 2 Sty Frame; 2280 Sq Ft BRT#562313500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Terence W. Schmidt, Known Surviving Heir of Kimberly Schmidt, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and All Unknown Surviving Heirs of Kimberly Schmidt, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 03950 $325,805.16 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-569 7220 Marsden Street 19135 41st wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1344 Sq Ft BRT#412380800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Arthur Zamorano C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 03251 $99,139.08 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-570 2025 Gorman Street 19116 58th wd. Det W/Gar 1 Sty Masonry; 1154 Sq Ft BRT#582017400 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Maria Maglio and Vito Maglio a/k/a Vito Maglio, Jr C.P. March Term, 2010 No. 00232 $131,336.14 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-571 5354 Morse Street 19131 52nd wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1230 Sq Ft BRT#521072200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Cynthia E. Brown C.P. May Term, 2011 No. 03965 $63,614.24 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-572 2553 North 11th Street 19133 37th wd. Row 3 Sty Masonry; 1776 Sq Ft BRT#371189600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Theresa Burnett, Known Surviving Heir of Marie L. Jones, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Carlton Burnett, Known Surviving Heir of Marie Jones, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Unknown Surviving Heirs of Marie L. Jones, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Carla B. Walker, Known Surviving Heir of Marie L. Jones, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Theresa Burnett, Known Surviving Heir of Marie L. Jones, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02394 $88,914.17 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C.

1502-573 2222 South Clarion Street 19148 39th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1116 Sq Ft BRT#394450300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: MOBILE HOME Pauline Hanly and Thomas Hanly C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 05415 $117,149.73 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-574 8082 Michener Avenue 19150 50th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1248 Sq Ft BRT#501128200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Brenda B. Hawkins C.P. August Term, 2009 No. 04479 $82,664.99 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-575 7812 Lister Street 19152 56th wd. Det W/Bas Gar 1 Sty Mason; 1176 Sq Ft BRT#641079700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Gunther Halcsin C.P. January Term, 2014 No. 01071 $202,582.20 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-576 7420 Rising Sun Avenue 19111 56th wd. 2500 Sq Ft BRT#561003300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James E. Evans C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 01493 $208,963.21 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-577 2610 Catharine Street 19146 13th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 944 Sq Ft BRT#302101200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Francis P. McNish, Known Surviving Heir of John Joseph McNish, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; Christopher J. McNish, Known Surviving Heir of John Joseph McNish, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner; John J. McNish, Jr, Known Surviving Heir of John Joseph McNish, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and Unknown Surviving Heirs of John Joseph McNish, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00599 $240,780.79 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-578 3010 Princeton Avenue 19149 55th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1105 Sq Ft BRT#551378142 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Allison King and Thomas P. Holzerman C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 02009 $129,631.57 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-579 46 East Pastorius Street 19144 59th wd. 1392 Sq Ft BRT#592093500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nadezhada Leviyeva a/k/a Nadezhda Leviyeva C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 02444 $95,725.89 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-580 8121 Rowland Avenue 19136

35th wd. Row B/Off-Str 2 Sty Masonr; 1540 Sq Ft BRT#871262000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James Keenan and Cynthia Perrone C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 02467 $289,719.76 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-581 1912 2nd Street 19122 18th wd. 984.41 Sq Ft; 1724 Sq Ft BRT#183281900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sean A. Rivera and Zaida Rodriguez C.P. October Term, 2013 No. 03579 $171,715.22 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-582 6217 Market Street 19139 34th wd. S/D Conv Apt 3 Sty Masonry; 3120 Sq Ft BRT#341006200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Cynthia Brown C.P. June Term, 2009 No. 03225 $141,311.16 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-583 6612 Leeds Street 19151 34th wd. 1218 Sq Ft BRT#344030900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William B. Johnson and Melissa Rose C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 01992 $63,919.34 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-584 363 Conarroe Street 19128 21st wd. Row 3 Sty Masonry; 1866 Sq Ft BRT#212107700 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mildred E. Nawn C.P. April Term, 2010 No. 30962 $168,058.03 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-585 6945 North 15th Street, Unit #2C 19126-1604 88th wd.

650 Sq Ft OPA#888056965 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM Harold Metellus C.P. April Term, 2014 No. 01209 $53,154.65 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-586 324 East Elmwood Street 19144 12th wd. 1525 Sq Ft BRT#121008700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shanta Felder C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00531 $98,345.29 KML Law Group, P.C. 1502-587 6219 Wheeler Street 191422913 40th wd. 844 Sq Ft OPA#402172500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William Lodge C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00535 $26,520.99 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-588 1235 South 15th Street 19146 36th wd. Row 3 Sty Masonry; 2280 Sq Ft BRT#365038300 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mattie Y. Gordon, Mortgagor and Administratrix of the Estate

of Elton Freeman, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and Elton Freeman (Deceased) C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00866 $182,400.58 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-589 439 East Somerset Street 19134 7th wd. 1120 Sq Ft BRT#071206900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Daisy Rivera C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 01981 $42,102.04 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire; Heather Riloff, Esquire; Jeniece D. Davis, Esquire 1502-590 1533 Foulkrod Street 19124 23rd wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1086 Sq Ft BRT#232177000 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kowana Manley C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01683 $116,739.97 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-591 958 Tyson Avenue 19111 53rd wd. 1152 Sq Ft BRT#532219600 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL FAMILY DWELLING Andy Thach C.P. November Term, 2013 No. 01721 $157,039.24 Emmanuel J. Argentieri 1502-592 7615 Brookhaven Road 19151 34th wd. Row B/Gar 2 Sty Masonry; 1336 Sq Ft BRT#343217600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Gwendolyn Garvin C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 001219 $159,746.70 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-593 2013 N 61st Street 191513544 34th wd. 1900 Sq Ft BRT#871155700 IMPROVEMENTS: COMMERCIAL/ RESIDENTIAL Lancaster Avenue Redevelopment Corporation C.P. July Term, 2014, No. 3172 $130,310.65 Matthew A. Lipman, Esquire 1502-594 4425 H Street 191243845 33rd wd. 1152 Sq Ft OPA#332128600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ramona V. Bracy C.P. July Term, 2013 No. 01465 $156,552.60 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-595 3327 Fitler Street 191142602 57th wd. 1770 Sq Ft OPA#572168819 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Samuel Turkson a/k/a Sam Trukson; Joyce Turkson C.P. May Term, 2013 No. 00014 $196,649.04 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-596 3118 Weymouth Street 191342413 33rd wd. 1064 Sq Ft OPA#331296700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony Torres C.P. June Term, 2010 No. 00929 $66,642.94 Phelan Hallinan, LLP

1502-597 1021 Bridge Street 191241817 23rd wd. 1896 Sq Ft OPA#234185600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Beth Anne Scott; Joseph Kerrigan a/k/a Joseph Scott Kerrigan C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 04317 $89,532.14 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-598 5628 North Marvine Street 19141-4116 49th wd. 1096 Sq Ft OPA#493104400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Benita Lundy C.P. August Term, 2014 No. 02140 $86,941.90 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-599 1034 Kerper Street 191114808 53rd wd. 1188 Sq Ft OPA#532085600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lisa M. Melvin C.P. March Term, 2012 No. 00534 $145,336.52 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-600 6151 Sansom Street 191393050 3rd wd. 1118 Sq Ft OPA#031041800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Camina Moore C.P. August Term, 2013 No. 00771 $78,202.46 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-601 3234 Aramingo Avenue 191344405 45th wd. 1083 Sq Ft OPA#451399100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James Fletcher a/k/a Jim Fletcher C.P. June Term, 2014 No. 00217 $135,405.88 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-602 9567 James Street, Unit B 19114 65th wd. 1056 Sq Ft (no land area) BRT#888651456 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM UNIT Jay Thomas Scidurlo C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 00494 $2,713.40 Elliot H. Berton, Esquire - Benjamin F. Dill, Esquire 1502-603 2620 South Alder Street 19148 39th wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1050 Sq Ft BRT#394140400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Unknown Surviving Heirs of Jeanette Melchionne, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and Barbara A. Chiaro a/k/a Barbara Chiaro, Known Surviving Heir of Jeanette Melchionne, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 02738 $152,098.74 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-604 2525 South 2nd Street 19148 39th wd. Land area: 736.32 Sq Ft; Improvement area: 1077 Sq Ft BRT#39-1-2750-00 James N. Borelli C.P. September Term, 2013 No. 2278 $141,168.35 David Banks, Esq., Banks & Banks 1502-605 607 E Edison Avenue 19116

58th wd. 1040 Sq Ft and 1.0526% undivided interest in the common elements, as more fully described in the Declaration of Condominium and Plats and Plans dated 1/26/1979 and recorded 1/29/1979 in Deed Book DCC 16567 page 9. BRT#888581363 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM Wayne R. Cobb C.P. April Term, 2011 No. 022690 $38,889.45 Glenn M. Ross, Esquire 1502-606 2212 W. Berks Street 19121 32nd wd. Row 2 Sty Masonry; 1254 Sq Ft BRT#322225701 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Robin D. Gaymon C.P. December Term, 2012 No. 01391 $33,547.63 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-607 4301 Enfield Avenue 191362861 65th wd. 1580 Sq Ft OPA#652015005 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vincent D. Carr a/k/a Vincent Carr C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 03425 $214,913.16 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-608 6943 Lindbergh Boulevard 19142 40th wd. Row B/GAR 2 Sty Masonry; 1224 Sq Ft BRT#406559000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Debra S. MooreScott and Clyde Scott C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03891 $162,124.45 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1502-609 11990 Audubon Place 191162318 58th wd. 2365 Sq Ft OPA#582422800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY George J. Prinos; Sherri M. Prinos C.P. April Term, 2012 No. 01664 $230,250.79 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-610 1324 Locust Street Apartment 301, a/k/a 1324 Locust Street #301 19107-5643 5th wd.

317 Sq Ft OPA#888115242 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM Sherry L. Sforza C.P. March Term, 2013 No. 01241 $112,263.15 Phelan Hallinan, LLP 1502-611A 4450 Garden Street 19137 45th wd. 960 Sq Ft; Situated on Northwest Side of Garden Street At 411 feet, 2 inches From Northeast side of Oxford Street; Front: 16 feet 2 inches Northwest between parallel lines with Garden Street, Depth: 70 feet to Northeast and Southwest lines partly passing thru center of party walls between this Premises and the premises adjoining on Northeast and Southwest respectively OPA#453330100 Theresa O’Brien a/k/a Theresa Lynn Scarborough C.P. June Term, 2013 No. 02618 $213,876.93 plus $31.31 per

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Happy Birthday Holly

by HughE Dillon Holly Kinser held her 50th birthday party at the Stratus Lounge of the Hotel Monaco, Philadelphia; she also marked her 25th anniversary as a lobbyist in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Many political guests were on hand to help celebrate the night, including former Governor Ed Rendell, Mayor Michael Nutter and 2015 mayoral candidate Doug Oliver. who offered birthday wishes. In lieu of gifts guests were asked to make a donation to the Philadelphia Children’s First Fund for the School District of Philadelphia or the Arden Theatre Company.

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Making Much More Than Lemonade A record-breaking evening of fundraising at the Lemon Ball

by HughE Dillon

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF), a nonprofit dedicated to finding cures for all kids with cancer, hosted its Ninth Annual Lemon Ball on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2015, at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown. Saturday night’s event raised over $1 million, which was the most ever raised at a Foundation special event. Making the evening especially poignant, the funds raised at the gala propelled ALSF to surpass the $100 million-raised mark since founder Alexandra “Alex” Scott (1996-2004) set up her first frontyard lemonade stand, a milestone in the Foundation’s history. Liz and Jay Scott, the parents of the late Alex Scott, co-chaired the gala with longtime Foundation supporters Mara and Jeff Kaliner. The evening also featured the presentation of the Alex Scott Crystal Cup to Ivy and Stephen Cohn, longtime supporters of ALSF.

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Neumann-Goretti Girls Go National Fun-loving yet hard-working team packs the stands

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hey are the hottest thing to hit Philadelphia-area girls’ high school basketball in years.

Young girls ask for their autographs after games. Boys come to see them play, including most of the nationally ranked, six-time defending Catholic League boys’ basketball players at Neumann-Goretti who attend every game they can.

Yes, life is good for the NeumannGoretti girls’ hoopsters right now. The Saints are 12-0 and ranked second in the nation by Max Preps.com and USA Today, and first in the nation by Blue Star Media.

And if you think people care about this team that up until recently had virtually no tradition in girls’ basketball, you would be right. Philadelphia University was packed Jan. 10 with over 1,000 spectators as Neumann knocked off upstart Shipley 76-60 at the 14th annual Ayahna Cornish Philly.com Rally Girls Play-by-Play Classic. Fortytwo teams competed in the country’s biggest single-day girls’ showcase event. But make no mistake about it; intrigue in the event was centered on the highest ranked local team in area history.

“It feels great to be ranked so high,” said Georgia Tech recruit Ciani Cryor, a 5-foot-6 guard who won MVP honors after the Shipley win. “I know most polls have us at number two but we want to be number one. We really enjoy people coming out to see our games and we enjoy the attention the team is getting.”

Coach Andrea Peterson is the beneficiary of this talented team that includes three other Division I commits: Sianni Martin (Towson), AJ Timbers (Towson) and Christina Aborowa (Texas) and four more potentially future Division I players. But she wasn’t expecting to be in this position. Peterson was the top assistant for

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Letty Santarelli, the woman who took the program to giant heights in a short time.

Santarelli resigned suddenly in October and Peterson was asked to become the interim coach of a team that won its first Catholic League title ever in 2014, finished 29-1, and made it to the PIAA AAA title game where it was upset by Seton La Salle.

Neither Santarelli nor the school have ever commented publicly on the sudden departure of a coach who was loved by her players. (Santarelli was present at the Philly U event to root on her old team.}

Philadelphia University was packed with over 1000 spectators as Neumann knocked off upstart Shipley “All I can say is that Letty resigned and I was asked to step in,” Peterson said. “I accepted immediately. I can say that it was a great experience working with the girls last year and having the year we had, and enjoying a lot of success. We are enjoying everything right now, the rankings and the attention are unbelievable. We are grateful for the position we are in. But honestly, our season is driven by losing in the state championship game last season. We feel we have unfinished business and we want to get better every day and want to finish on top this year. That’s not to say that we aren’t excited and enjoying everything right now, we definitely are.”

Peterson said that she remembered playing in this girls’ event as a standout player at Archbishop Carroll. She played college locally at Drexel and joined the

Neumann staff as an adult. “It’s been a great experience,” she said. “It’s different than my experiences with Carroll [where we also won championships]. The girls are so much fun, they are different personalities, full of life. You will see us start a game by doing dances. These girls are having fun and they’re relaxed even though we have a target on our backs everywhere we go. There’s never a dull moment with these guys. I’m loving being their coach.”

As for the players, losing their head coach just two weeks before the start of the season was a tough blow. But the transition to Peterson has been seamless. “Nothing changed at all,” said Martin, who has 12 points against Shipley. “Losing our coach just added fuel to our fire. This year is now for coach Letty. But as far as having “coach P,” we don’t look at it as a new coach, she was here last year. So it was normal, but it just felt a little different without Letty.”

Martin admits the team has fun together and can clown around but she said the team is nationally ranked right now because “we work extremely hard every day and we humble ourselves. We do not take anyone lightly. We knew Shipley was good and we prepared for a tough game and that’s what we got. We know if we lose, we can lose this ranking we have, so we work extremely hard and do everything we can to make sure we stay here.”

Martin has a swagger to her game that intrigued many Division I coaches and makes her a fan favorite but ultimately she chose Towson where she’ll attend with teammate Timbers. She said she knows she has to keep improving to be a factor for the rest of this year and then in college. “The key to my game is knocking down threes and finishing at the hoop,” she said. “I have to stay aggressive. My drives on offense are very important.”

Neuman-Goretti’s Sianni Martin (#3) shoots a jump shot at the Play-by-Play Classic girls’ basketball tournament at Philadelphia University.

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Mo’ne Davis drives to the hoop during the Play-by-Play Classic girls’ basketball tournament. Photo by Sarah J. Glover

Both Cryor and Martin say the team learned from the loss in the state final last year. They are not ready to talk about March basketball in January but it’s seemingly in the back of their minds.

“I learned no matter how tired we are we still have to make smart plays,” said Cryor.

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Depictions of famed gay writer take center stage in Philly

Wilde PeRFoRManCe: Oscar Wilde (David Daniels, from top left), Ada Leverson (Heidi Stober) and Frank Harris (William Burden); Bosie (Reed Luplau) haunts Oscar’s memory throughout the opera; Death (Luplau) visits Oscar and his fellow inmates at Reading Gaol.

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Oscar Wilde’s presence looms large over Philadelphia’s cultural landscape this winter. And just like Wilde did when he visited the city in 1882, he is sure to amuse, inspire and even scandalize.

The East Coast premiere of “Oscar,” an opera about Wilde’s tragic final years, is the highlight of all this activity. The show opens at the Academy of Music Feb. 6 and runs for five performances.

David Daniels, the famous countertenor, stars as the Irish-born author and gay icon, whose world collapses when a misguided lawsuit backfires and he is sentenced to two years of hard labor for what the Victorians referred to as “gross indecency” with men.

Daniels’ portrayal of the brilliant but doomed writer was first seen in Santa Fe in August 2013. According to James Oestreich of The New York Times, the countertenor “was superb, not only singing but also acting the role with a savvy Wildean mix of arrogance and vulnerability.”

“Oscar,” a coproduction of Opera Philadelphia and The Santa Fe Opera, features music by Theodore Morrison and a libretto by Morrison and John Cox, a notable English opera director. Singers William Burden, Dwayne Croft and Heidi Stober round out the cast.

In addition to “Oscar,” numerous events examining Wilde’s life and work are taking place throughout the region. They include the Jan. 26 recital “A Taste of Opera: Wilde and Whitman in Song,” at the Free Library of Philadelphia, and the Jan. 28 screening of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute.

Of special interest to the LGBT community is Chris Bartlett’s Feb. 3 Q&A with Daniels. Bartlett, executive director of the William Way LGBT Community Center, is also a longtime opera fan and said he’s excited about the upcoming premier.

“Hearing a countertenor is such a magical, special thing,” he said. “It’s a rare and, dare I say, queer sound.”

William Way is also cosponsoring Out at the Opera on Feb. 13. LGBT opera lovers can come out en masse to enjoy Oscar and show their gay pride. The evening begins with a pre-performance talk by Reggie Shuford, executive director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania. Shuford will discuss legal issues confronting the LGBT community, both in Wilde’s day and now. A $20 discount on tickets is available (www.operaphila.org/ out-opera).

If this flurry of interest in Wilde seems

out of place, it is important to note that Philadelphia can lay claim to playing a role in Wilde’s life. Although he spent most of his adult life in London, the famous wit visited Philadelphia twice during his 1882 tour of America. While here, he delivered two public lectures and gave numerous interviews. The visit also eventually led to an acquaintance with Philadelphia publisher J. M. Stoddart, who commissioned Wilde’s only novel, “The Picture of Dorian Gray.”

More importantly, on both occasions, the flamboyant young aesthete traveled to Camden to visit Walt Whitman, whom he admired tremendously. This meeting was undoubtedly significant to Wilde. Whitman recorded his impressions of the visit in a letter to his young friend Harry Stafford, describing Wilde as “a fine large handsome youngster.” Moreover, the rustic bard added, Wilde “had the good sense to take a great fancy to me.”

Wilde was only 27 when he met Whitman.

He had not yet written his delightful farces or penetrating critical essays. Nor had he met the young man he loved, Lord Alfred Douglas, known as Bosie.

That relationship changed the course of Wilde’s life and it’s his final years that are the focus of “Oscar.” For Daniels, who portrays the LGBT icon, it’s important for audiences to understand the opera’s context: It is not a trifling farce or drawing-room comedy.

“Our story is about the horrible way he was treated in the last few years of his life, the imprisonment, the way Bosie treated him,” the actor said.

Nor is it a romance. As Daniels noted, Wilde’s relationship with Bosie was complicated at best.

“Yes, we’ve all been in relationships where there’s a lot of love but there’s a lot of ugliness as well.”

It’s an important story, because Wilde’s personal travails throw into glaring view both how far LGBT people have come in the last 125 years and how far they still have to go.

The story of how “Oscar” came to be is interesting in itself. Almost a decade ago, Daniels recounted, he was performing a recital at London’s Barbican, singing compositions by Theodore Morrison.

Distinguished director John Cox was in the audience and came backstage afterwards to congratulate them.

According to Daniels, “John Cox loved the music and met Theo backstage and said, ‘I love your music. Have you ever thought of writing an opera?’ And Theo said, ‘No, I haven’t, but now I will!’ And that’s how it really happened.”

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Fortunately for Daniels, the role was created with him in mind. It highlights his distinctive countertenor voice and makes him the dramatic focus of the opera.

“It’s a unique situation and position to be in for me because, no, operas are not written for specific singers every day,” he acknowledged.

That “Oscar” covers a difficult, even brutal period in Wilde’s life was not lost on Daniels. He admitted that preparing for the opera’s initial staging in Santa Fe was emotionally draining. As a seasoned performer, this came as a bit of a surprise.

“I’m not one to lose it,” Daniels said. “And I lost it in rehearsals, over and over again. And it was so powerful to all of us, sitting around with tears in our eyes, creating this the first time. That surprised me. I didn’t think that that would be the case.”

Those challenges are more than made up for by the wonderful opportunity “Oscar” presents the singer, both personally and profes-

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It’s precisely those issues that Bartlett hopes to explore with Daniels at their public discussion Feb. 3. Bartlett said he’d like the conversation to include a mix of general reflections on LGBT life in the arts and personal anecdotes from Daniels’ life as a gay opera singer.

“I’m curious to talk to him about some of the history of participation of LGBT people — and particularly gay men — in opera as fans, as composers, as performers, and to what extent he feels that his sexual orientation and gender identity impacted his love for opera, his decision to get involved in opera and his success.”

Bartlett noted that “Oscar” fits in nicely with upcoming offerings planned for Reminder 2015, a series of events celebrating LGBT history.

“It’s thrilling that there Wilde (Daniels) at Reading Gaol happens to be an opera dealing with issues of gay with Juliet. I’ve never been able, as history and one of our greatest gay a gay man, to play a gay man on figures,” he said. stage. And that’s just been over- For more information, visit www. operaphila.org. n whelming.”

sionally. Daniels, who is openly gay and is married to his partner, finally has the chance to play a gay man on stage.

“I’m used to playing roles where I’m in love with a woman,” he said.

“I’m playing Caesar; I’m in love with Cleopatra. I’m Nero; I’m in love with Poppaea. Romeo; in love

Delaware museum explores Wilde play in art “Oscar Wilde’s Salomé: Illustrating Death and Desire,” which opens Feb. 7 at the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, focuses on the way this scandalous 1892 play has inspired visual artists.

Among the roughly 35 pieces on display are lithographs by Aubrey Beardsley, who illustrated the first edition of “Salomé” in 1894, and engravings by Barry Moser, whose images accompany Joseph Donohue’s celebrated 2011 translation, which rendered the original

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text’s florid French into frank, idiomatic English. Other pieces being shown first appeared in periodicals and books.

“Salomé” is darker than the amusing comedies for which Wilde is justly admired. His sources for this retelling of John the Baptist’s beheading, found in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, are brief, spare accounts of the conflict between worldly power and divine authority.

Immorality undoubtedly forms the backdrop, but Wilde injected erotic and macabre elements into the story, transforming it into a perverse tale of decadence and transgression.

Preparations for staging “Salomé” with the famous actor Sarah Bernhardt were underway in London when the Lord Chamberlain prohibited it. In a sense, the public didn’t get to “see” Wilde’s shocking play until an 1894 edition featuring Beardsley’s striking pen and inkline drawings was published.

The artist’s sensual, suggestive drawings, transformed into lithographs, have had a lasting influence on how later artists have approached the text.

“Beardsley’s illustrations in themselves greatly influenced the reception of the drama, much more so than if there had been no accompanying illustrations,” said Margaretta

Frederick, the exhibit’s curator.

The Beardsley portfolio is part of the Delaware Art Museum’s permanent collection. It includes several images that never appeared in the 1894 edition of “Salomé,” as well as some that are now shown with sexual imagery unaltered.

The work of other artists inspired by the play, including Louis Jou and Valenti Angelo, is also on display. Fredrick confesses a particular fondness for French painter Andre Derain’s pictures of Salome’s’ dance.

“What I really like is that his balletic imagery echoes Wilde’s rhythmic prose,” she said.

But the other major presence in this exhibit is the work of Moser, a contemporary artist. His dark, moody depictions of the story stand in stark contrast to Beardsley’s delicate-looking but decadent drawings.

According to Frederick, “Moser’s contributions for this 21st-century interpretation freely convey the decadence of Wilde’s characters with a frank forthrightness that closely mimics Donohue’s translation.”

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Rosenbach brings Wilde back to Philly

“Everything is Going on Brilliantly: Oscar Wilde and Philadelphia,” a new exhibit at the Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia, makes the case that the City of Brotherly Love has had an enduring place in the Irishborn author’s life and art.

The exhibit, which opens Jan. 23, contains roughly 50 objects, some related to the famous wit’s two visits to the city, and others accumulated over the years by collectors and scholars.

The curators, Dr. Margaret Stetz and Mark Samuels Lasner of the University of Delaware, drew on decades of experience studying Wilde to create this exhibit. In addition to displaying items from the Rosenbach’s collection, they’ve pulled together material from numerous archives, including the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.

People visiting the Rosenbach, located at 2008-10 Delancey Place, will find themselves transported back in time by the photos, advertisements and manuscripts documenting Wilde’s impact. Even the rooms have been designed to frame the experience.

“We want visitors to the exhibition to feel as though they are entering Wilde’s world — or, at least, the sort of rooms where artistically minded Philadelphians might have met Wilde in 1882, during his two visits to the city,” Stetz said.

The most interesting pieces on display — per-

haps shown publicly for the first time — were discovered right here in the Free Library of Philadelphia: a hand-corrected typescript of the play “Salomé” and a notebook from around 1880 containing unrecorded versions of early poems and sketches.

Stetz is particularly fond of the notebook.

“It’s not only of immense scholarly importance, but it’s a lot of fun to look at, because it’s filled with Wilde’s doodles — many of them of heads,” she said.

“Clearly, a decade before he wrote ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray,’ Wilde was already obsessed with portraits, and he loved sketching faces, whether real or imaginary.”

Wilde visited Philadelphia twice during his 1882 lecture tour of America. In addition to delivering public talks, he gave numerous interviews and met with his cousin, Father Basil Maturin, the rector of St. Clement’s Church.

Both times, the flamboyant aesthete crossed the Delaware to visit the rustic bard Walt Whitman, whom he admired. A letter from Whitman to Harry Stafford describing their meeting is on loan from the Library of Congress.

On Feb. 5, Stetz and Samuels Lasner will lecture at Rosenbach on various aspects of Wilde’s Philadelphia connections.

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Brent Ridge and Josh Kilmer-Purcell: Taking fabulous from reality TV to small-town farm They’re here, they’re queer and they’re fabulous! I first learned about the Beekman Boys from my straight friend, Ellie, who admonished me, “What do you mean you don’t know the Beekman Boys? You’re gay! Get with the program! I lave them!”

(She has a Greek accent). If you’re already with the program, you know about the couple from their cable show “The Fabulous Beekman Boys,” their time as the season-21 winners on “The Amazing Race” or their rising lifestyle company Beekman 1802.

The fab duo is here in Philadelphia for this weekend’s Philadelphia Home Show and I had a chance to speak to each of them about their adventures.

Pgn: I noticed you have a bit of an accent.

BR: Yes, I’m from North Carolina.

Pgn: Tell me what you like best about your hometown.

BR: It was a very nice, small, rural Southern town of about 3,000 people and everyone knew one another.

Pgn: What’s a trait you got from your parents?

BR: Probably got my fixation with details.

My father was a mason and my mother was a nurse. If you’re a mason and it’s not done right, your building is going to fall down. And if you’re in health care and you do something wrong, someone could die.

Pgn: So Josh was your first boyfriend?

BR: Yup. He is the first and only guy I ever dated.

Pgn: How did you figure out you were gay?

BR: I think it’s something that you know from the time you’re aware of certain things. But I grew up in a very evangelical family, so it just wasn’t anything that I would ever dream of exploring. It wasn’t until I moved to New York City to do my medical residency that I came out and started exploring.

Pgn: I read your TV career got started in an interesting fashion.

BR: Yes, I’d gone back to business school and after graduating took a position at Mount Sinai Hospital. I was doing some clinical work and part of my job was to create a new center for older adults. I’d written [architect] I.M. Pei asking him to design the facility and after we came up with the design, I wrote to Martha Stewart asking her to be the benefactor. It was important to me to stress older people were still vital, productive and creative.

Both of those represented that idea very well, so having them attached to the project was very symbolic. After that, I kept in touch with Martha and later worked for her.

Pgn: You and Josh won “The Amazing Race” season 21. In the first episode you fell behind because you let a competing team go in front of you. Did you keep that fair-play mindset all the way through?

BR: It’s interesting, for the hard-core fans of the show, one of the things they got upset about is the fact that we weren’t super-competitive. We never became cutthroat and a lot of fans who are really into the “competition” part of the show hated the fact that we played a very collegial game and still won.

Pgn: What do you think the social impact was of having two openly gay men who were congenial and friendly and didn’t feel the need to be über-masculine to compete?

BR: We often hear about homophobia because those are the stories that make the headlines but, for the vast majority of America, it’s not that they are homophobic, it’s that they’ve never been exposed to gay couples like us. When “The Fabulous Beekman Boys” debuted, it was the first reality show that focused on a gay couple in a long-term relationship. We would get letters every week that would say, “My husband would have never watched a show about a gay couple but he loves your show and now we realize you’re just like us.” In fact, at the end of “Amazing Race,” there’s a couple from the deep South that races monster trucks and they were … unexposed to gay culture. In his exit interview, one of the things he said was Josh and I opened his eyes to the fact that gay couples were just like he and his wife and loved each other just like they loved each other. It’s just been in the past few years that you’re seeing more mainstream representations of gay life. We like to say, “Yep, we’re just as boring as you are.”

Pgn: Turning to the farm and show, I read it all started with some homeless goats.

BR: Right! Josh was the creative director at one of the largest advertising agencies in the city and I was working with Martha Stewart. In 2007, the economy was good and we thought we could afford to buy this million-dollar farm in upstate New York.

We cashed in all of our savings and bought the place for a weekend getaway. Shortly after we bought it, we found a hand-written note in our mailbox that said, “My name is John and I grew up in this area on a dairy farm and I’m losing the farm. I have a herd of 80 goats. May I please bring them to your property to graze?” And at the very end he wrote, “and I am gay … ” If you watched the show you’ll know how much he loves those goats. He was such a sweetheart, there was no way we could let him part with his goats. Then in 2008 the recession hit and we both lost our jobs. We now had this huge mortgage and on top of it were supporting a farmer and his goats. We needed to find a way to make the farm sustain itself; that’s how the company started.

Pgn: What are the best and craziest parts of being a farmer?

BR: Every day is crazy around here. It’s a very small village — 547 people — so there’s always some drama happening and everybody knows all about it or thinks they do. As for the best, I think what being on the farm has taught us is the importance of seasonality. Living in the city, you can get anything you want at any time you want it and you don’t appreciate anything.

So moving to the farm where we raise about 80 percent of the food that we personally consume (the nearest grocery store is a 35-minute drive), you really learn to appreciate things. We can or pickle a lot of things but there comes a point, like in late February or early March, when we’ve consumed all of our tomatoes, so we don’t have a fresh tomato again until the end of summer. But when you bite into that first tomato in August, it’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever tasted. One of the things we do now, whether it’s with a piece of furniture that we’re designing or a recipe that we’ve come up with, we talk about

heirlooms: something that’s well-crafted or has a story behind its development, something that will last generations. That’s what’s important to us in this throw-away society.

Pgn: I love the way you two are conscious of community. Looking at the website for 1802, which is really well done by the way, I saw your pasta sauce has a funny name and an interesting story behind it.

BR: It’s called Mortgage Lifter. About a year after we bought the farm and lost our jobs, Josh was able to find a new job to help cover our mortgage. We’d decided to make a go of the farm, but it’s very capital-intensive just to get the place up and running. The first season of the show was about Josh moving back to the city and coming home on weekends while I stayed full-time to try to get the farming business up and running. At that point we’d been together for 10 years and figured that our relationship was solid enough that we could handle a year apart. That year turned into five years of sacrifice and to help pay the mortgage, we decided to do a pasta sauce.

There’s a variety of tomatoes called the Mortgage Lifter and the story behind it is it was first grown by a farmer in 1929 in West Virginia and was so successful, it paid off his mortgage. So we made it very transparent that we were going to be using the profits to pay off the mortgage on our farm. We planted the tomatoes that spring, not knowing that we were going to run the Amazing Race. In mid-June we won the million but couldn’t tell anyone yet. So when we began producing the sauce, our mortgage had already been paid off and we wanted to pay it forward; we knew there were a lot of small farms struggling and not everyone would have a chance to be on “The Amazing Race”!

We decided 25 percent of the profits from the sauce would go to other small farms to help pay down their mortgages. Every February, farms can apply for the Lift award and we have three independent agricultural experts who choose a farm. It has to be a small farm and they have to be doing some community practice that other farms can learn from. Last year, we gave out $13,000 and this year are giving $20,000.

Mortgage Lifter pasta sauce will be in every Target in America this spring, so we’re hoping the prize will be even more substantial next year.

Pgn: You’re becoming the new Paul Newman! So are you excited about being in Philadelphia?

BR: Oh yes, one of the companies that “made us” was Anthropology. When we first started out, they were making goatmilk-based beauty products. They were our first big wholesale order so we’ve been to Philly quite a few times working with them.

We love Philly.

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Q Puzzle Ecce homophobe Across 1. Rainbow maker 6. Drag queen Justin 10. Lickety-split 14. Kilmer simile phrase 15. Locker room emanation 16. Gore Vidal work, with “At” 17. Had in mind 18. Where to find a top on the level 19. Protected, to seamen 20. Homophobe Kansas governor 23. Award for Ursula LeGuin 26. He made boxers more visible

27. When repeated, a dance 28. Room for Marga Gomez 29. Waterproof cover 32. Say hi to 34. Asian inland sea 35. Thurman of “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” 36. Mandy Patinkin’s “Evita” role 37. “Duck Dynasty” homophobe 42. ___ kwon do 43. Type of toy 44. Coal porter’s vehicle?

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PORTRAIT from page 23

PGN: Your favorite Philly club?

BR: We are not really club people.

I never even had my first alcoholic beverage until I began dating Josh at 25, but Josh has a much more checkered past. [Laughs] He was a drag queen during the days of Limelight and the Tunnel and all those places at the end of the club kids scene. He’s been there and done that, whereas I never had enough exposure to be interested in club life.

PGN: I can’t wait to ask him about that, but let’s wrap up with some random questions. A word beginning with the first letter of your first name that sums you up.

BR: A “b” word. I’d say boyish.

PGN: What’s the most mischievous thing your pet llama, Polka Spot, has done?

BR: She taught herself to jump the fence. We couldn’t figure how she was getting out until one day we saw her run and leap over the fence and it was so funny because she flattened out her whole body like a torpedo and when she landed on the other side, she just stopped and ate the grass.

PGN: I guess it’s not just people who think it’s greener … What’s the secret to being fabulous?

BR: Having your own definition of what fabulous is.

PGN: OK. Josh time. I was going to joke that I don’t usually do two guys at once but that sounded wrong. Tell me about yourself.

JKP: I was born in Albany but raised in Wisconsin so I consider myself a polite Midwesterner. I have a brother two years older than me and two great parents. My dad was in marketing.

PGN: College?

Anti-family homophobe with 19 kids 60. Artist Catherine 61. “Perry Mason” star Raymond 62. Perineum, in slang 66. Asshole 67. Non-speaking part in “Born Free” 68. Come after 69. Lammy award winner Donnelly 70. Votes of approval 71. Bear

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1. Homophobe attorney general of Florida 2. USPS beat 3. “Got a Rainbow” lyricist Gershwin 4. Characteristic of Mapplethorpe’s photos 5. Rock music subgenre 6. Flop on Broadway

JKP: Michigan State. I was an English major.

PGN: Ah yes, in addition to your farming, you’ve written two bestselling memoirs, a novel and three cookbooks. I want to read, “I am Not Myself These Day.” JKP: Ah, the dirty book.

PGN: I can handle it! By the way, what did you guys decide about your married names?

JKP: We decided I already had a hyphen in my name and Josh Kilmer-Purcell-Ridge was one hyphen too many. We just stuck with our own names. Everyone thinks we’re Beekman anyway.

PGN: I read people keep calling you the Beekman Brothers and think you’re siblings.

JKP: Constantly, and then they’ll ask us about our wedding. It’s very strange.

PGN: Who is Aquadisiac?

JKP: She’s my drag character.

When I got to the big city I was hesitant to cut loose until the mask of Aqua allowed me to explore while being a different person.

PGN: What were your best and worst moments on “The Amazing Race”?

JKP: The best was outside of Bangladesh. It was about 110 degrees and we were exhausted and tired and trying to get to the finish line when this wave of children joined us. They all started chanting, “Beekman Boys!” It carried us to the finish line.

PGN: I would have thought it was winning at ping pong against the Chinese junior champion?

JKP: Oh yeah, my first-ever sports win. That was early on before things started getting really tough. I would say my worst was in Amsterdam.

7. River of Ulrichs’ country 8. “You’re out of luck” 9. Talk like a Tennessee Williams character 10. Moby Dick chaser 11. Comfort in sorrow 12. Don of “Cocoon” 13. Watch like a voyeur 21. Like R-rated-film audiences 22. Shakespearean’s “Twelfth ___” 23. Top-secret org. 24.

He shot off at O.K. Corral 25. Not so exciting 30. First in a Latin threesome 31. Steven Greenberg, for one 33. Milieu of Stephan Pyles 36. “For ___ out loud!”

38. Wonder Woman weapon

39. Forever and a day 40. First ed.

41. Lorca’s zip 45. Where wrestlers lie together 46. Next step for Elton after knighthood?

47. City where you can “Taiwan” on? 48. Risk adversaries 49. Vehicle for a moonshot 53. “The Sound of Music” setting 55. One of the “Maneater” singers 57. “Ed Wood” role 58. Bear that roams the night 59. End of a favorite holiday 63. Stein words that pop up between roses?

64. “Sister Act” extra 65. Homophobe senator Cruz

On the show you don’t get to eat or drink much and I’d lost about 15 pounds, so I was running across the field in the middle of the night, in the rain, trying to hold my pants up and fell and sprained my ankle. We still had three legs of the race left.

PGN: So who saw the farm first?

JKP: We both did. We’d spent a weekend in Sharon Springs and on the way home saw a historic sign of what we thought must be a museum. We went to check it out and saw the for-sale sign. There was no reason for us to buy a farm and we never thought we could afford it but fell in love with it.

PGN: Were you always spontaneous or was this one of those oncein-a-lifetime moments?

JKP: It was an opportunity that presented itself and we weren’t sure what it meant but we felt strongly about it so we jumped in with both feet. Same thing with “The Amazing Race”: We’d always loved the show but never imagined being on it.

PGN: How did that come about?

JKP: We were doing a cookbook signing and this old woman came up to us. She had an oxygen tank and said, “I just love your show.

My neighbor and I watch it every week.” I said, “Thank you, that’s very sweet” and she responded, “My neighbor is the president of CBS Reality Television.” We didn’t realize she was serious and joked, “Why aren’t we on ‘The Amazing Race’?” She said, “I don’t know, I’ll ask her.” By the time we got home, we got a call to be on the show.

PGN: That’s an amazing story. So, as a farm owner, what’s the craziest thing that has happened?

JKP: Every day is unpredictable; between the weather and the animals and the crops, anything can

happen. I think the craziest thing was the first year when the goats started having babies. They each had two to five babies and we had about 100 goats. It was like a Disney horror movie! At one time, the farm was filled with almost 600 goats.

PGN: I worked as an animal wrangler on the movie “Beloved.” We had turkeys and I couldn’t believe the racket that they made. I was ready to go back to the city where it was quieter! Do goats make a lot of noise?

JKP: They make an incredible amount of noise, especially the small kids. But the births were surprisingly easy. Coming from Manhattan — where, when you think of birth, you think of Lamaze classes and yoga and water births and it’s so involved — on a farm you go to bed and when you wake up there are six kids on the ground.

PGN: Talk a little about Beekman 1802, “the fastest-growing lifestyle brand in the United States.”

JKP: That’s what they say. We didn’t know what to do with all the goat milk we had and we met a woman who was producing this great goat-milk soap. We began working with her and it was our very first product. Then she introduced us to a neighbor who wove incredible textiles in her living room and we thought, Oh, we can sell these too, and she in turn introduced us to a blacksmith down the road, etc., etc. Now we work with over 50 different local artisans.

Sometimes we find people with things that are perfect, ready to sell, and sometimes we help design something a little more marketable.

It’s a really collaborative effort.

PGN: I told Brett I loved your website with the live baby goat cam, recipes and tips.

JKP: Our business and life are one in the same. There are a lot of companies and brands that try to portray a certain lifestyle but they are just doing it to get you to buy stuff. But with us, everything we make and sell are things we and our neighbors use and like. We are living the life we show.

PGN: Now, random questions.

What’s your best scar?

JKP: It’s on my ring finger, from chopping kindling as a kid.

PGN: If you could have a dinner party and invite three guests, alive or dead, who would be your top three choices?

JKP: There would be no question, it would be my grandparents. I’d scooch around the table so I could fit them all.

PGN: I’ll count the grandparents as one guest. Who else?

JKP: Eartha Kitt ... and William Beekman! n The Beekman Boys will take the main stage at the Philadelphia Home Show at noon and 4:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, 12th and Arch streets. For more information, visit phillyhomeshow.com. For more information on Beekman 1802, visit beekman1802.com.

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New York drag queens plan great ‘Escape’

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com The NYC drag scene is taking a bite out of Philly when “Escape from New York,” a new monthly drag show featuring the comedic gender-bending talents of Lady Boy Marti Gould Cummings and Bob the Drag Queen, sets up shop at Tabu Jan. 30.

Cummings, a native of rural Maryland, felt the pull of New York City early on.

“I grew up on a farm so there was nobody like me around,” he said. “I was running around a cornfield singing, ‘The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow.’ I didn’t fit in where I was from. I got into community theater when I was really little. As soon as I graduated high school, I moved to New York.

That was 10 years ago.”

Cummings had his sights set on a career in theater and wasn’t considering performing in drag until he was nudged in that direction during a casting call.

“I became a drag performer by accident,” he said. “I was doing this show on Broadway and I went to the final callback and they said, ‘There is something about

you that is different. We thought about rewriting the role for you to be this androgynous, cross-dressing character. Would you be into that?’ I said, ‘Yeah, sure, why not?’

I did that and I started experimenting with drag a little bit. Then I did a birthday party at a bar dressed up and the next day the bar owner called me up and asked me if I wanted to do a weekly show, and that’s how I became a drag queen. It was totally accidental. None of it was planned. That is how I left theater.”

Cummings said it took a while and some help from his fellow queens to hit his stride as a drag performer.

“I’ve always been funny but being funny in real life and on stage and cracking a joke is a different beast to conquer,” he said. “I watched a lot of Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller and Lisa Lampanelli to get an idea of how to do it. Then I booked a show at the Ritz on Sunday nights. Bianca Del Rio did the show on Monday nights; she would come to the shows every Sunday and sit at the bar after and give me a lot of great advice. Now I write my own jokes and try to have a structure for stories that set up into the songs.”

Cummings also developed his own sense of style along the way, sometimes eschewing the glam-diva motif for something more androgynous.

“Every time I go out it’s a little different,” he said. “I’m not a big wig wearer. I use my own hair and nails. My drag is my drag. I think the point of drag is to make it what you want it to be and have fun with it. There are no rules and no box to stay inside of. I do my own thing. Sometimes I look like a pretty drag queen. Sometimes I look like a boy in a dress. It depends on my mood and what I am feeling. I don’t try to be fishy or anything like that.”

Cummings’ styles and sense of humor have won him a following in New York City, where he has his own non-televised talk show, “The Not-So-Late Show,” at New World Stages every Saturday night and where he talks it up with celebrity guests.

Now Cummings is getting ready to invade Philadelphia with another comedic New York queen he sings the praises of.

“The show I have in Philadelphia once a month is with Bob the Drag Queen who, to me, is the funniest drag queen on the scene

MARTI GOULD CUMMINGS

right now,” he said. “I think she is one of the most brilliant comedians I’ve seen perform.

It’s such an honor to get to share the stage with her in Philadelphia.” n “Escape from New York” premieres 10:30 p.m. Jan. 30 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St. For more information, call 215-964-9675 or visit www.facebook.com/marti.g.cummings.

Out filmmakers bring personal experience to ‘Still Alice’

By Gary M. Kramer PGN Contributor In “Still Alice” — writer/directors (and real-life couple) Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland’s beautiful, intelligent adaptation of Lisa Genova’s novel — Alice (Julianne Moore) is a Columbia University linguistics professor who experiences the symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer’s. This compelling, moving drama shows the effect the disease has on her and her family.

“Still Alice” is all about loss and control as the title character slips in and out of stages where she has difficulty remembering things — be it a word, a name or a dinner engagement — and the film shows how she tries to keep it together under such pressure. Glatzer and Westmoreland never milk her situation for pathos, and they coax an extraordinary performance from Moore.

Her expressions as she grapples with her condition are absolutely heartbreaking.

In an email exchange, Westmoreland responded to questions about “Still Alice.”

PGN: I understand this film resonates with both you and Richard. Can you discuss your experiences and how they are reflected in “Still Alice”?

WW: Richard developed a slight lisp about four years ago and was told he probably had bulbar ALS. The life expectancy for this is between 18 months and four years. Richard is not only beating the odds, but he has directed two feature films in this time. He’s determined to keep going. We don’t talk much about next year or the year after — we just live day by

from heterosexual patriarchy. We certainly had no problem identifying with Alice and working the entire story through her point of view.

PGN: Visually, you convey the theme of loss, the triggers of memory and the fog of what is happening to Alice through outof-focus shots and “home movies.” Can you discuss your visual approach?

WW: As Alice’s short-term memory deteriorates, she starts to live FILMMAKERS RICHARD GLATZER (LEFT) AND more in her distant memories.

WASH WESTMORELAND This is very common with people day. Adapting “Still Alice” helped us work living with Alzheimer’s — the through some of our own issues — both further back the recollection, the easier it in terms of living with the disease and is to hold on to. To show this, we used litcaregiving. The speech Alice gives at the tle shards of Super-8 of Alice’s childhood Alzheimer’s Association later on in the weaving in with her daily routine. Super-8 movie largely comes from Richard’s expe- films were a big part of my childhood. riences.

When I remember something, I sometimes wonder if I’m remembering the event PGN: Your early films have had signifitself, or seeing it on Super-8. They have icant queer characters, plot or subplots. the same hazy texture in my mind.

With “Still Alice” and your previous film, “The Last Days of Robin Hood,” you have PGN: Every scene — Alice speaking, made “women’s pictures.” Can you talk cooking or running — is freighted with about this shift in your work? the danger that she may forget what she is WW: We are always primarily driven by doing, or even harm herself or others. Can the story and have projects on our docket you talk about how you created this narrawith gay, straight, male and female protag- tive tension? onists. There is a great tradition — from WW: We realized that the potential for Cukor to Fassbinder to Todd Haynes — of memory loss leading to socially embargay filmmakers having a strong connecrassing situations or physical danger was tion to female protagonists. I guess there’s a powerful source of suspense. Whenever a certain sense of empathy and exclusion Alice is doing something — whether it

is giving a lecture, visiting the doctor or cooking Christmas dinner — the audience is consciously willing her to pull it off. In the end, it seems like she escapes social embarrassment but then something unexpected happens. In this way, it functions like a horror movie; the hand comes up out of the grave and grabs you.

PGN: There are powerful themes of shame, security, struggle and suffering reverberated throughout the film. Can you discuss that?

WW: Alice says, “I’m so ashamed,” indicating the social perceptions of the disease. There is still something about Alzheimer’s that people feel embarrassed about. HIV/AIDS is also relevant here, demonstrating how the perception of a disease can be changed through social activism. What Alzheimer’s really needs is a similar sea change in the way the disease is perceived. We hope that “Still Alice” is a story that can get people to understand the disease more intimately.

PGN: How did you work with Julianne Moore on the role?

WW: We divided Alice’s deterioration into four main phases, but Julianne did such a nuanced portrayal it seemed more like 400 phases. Julianne was so committed.

She did so much research — in terms of visiting support groups and making friends in the Alzheimer’s community — to make sure everything she did was 100-percent real. This took away our main fear — a phony note — and created something that was authentic and relevant. n

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Theater & Arts allora and Calzadilla: intervals Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition of new and recent projects by Puerto Rico-based artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla through April 5, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. american Psycho The drama starring Christian Bale is screened 8 p.m. Jan. 26 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215-9226888. and the Word is …

The Gershman

Y hosts an exhibition exploring religious text in contemporary art through May 14, 401 S. Broad St.; 215-545-4400.

damon Wayans The comedian performs through Jan. 24 at Helium Comedy Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215-496-9001.

the art of the Female Form The Merritt Gallery presents an exhibition on how femininity has been represented in contemporary art through Jan. 31, 385 W. Lancaster Ave., Haverford; www. merrittgallery. com.

the dangerous House of Pretty Mbane InterAct Theatre Company presents the story of a young South African soccer phenom who flees to England to escape persecution through Feb. 8 at the Adrienne Theatre, 2030 Sansom St.; 215-567-2848.

Brian sanders’ JUnK presents: the Fifth snowball The out choreographer’s dance company performs its annual fundraiser 8 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215-9226888.

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Send your contact information and a brief description of the event to editor@epgn.com.

doubt: a Parable Lantern Theater Company presents the American drama set at a Bronx Catholic school, through Feb. 15 at St. Stephen’s Theater, 923 Ludlow St.; www.lanterntheater.org.

Pgn aRts & enteRtainMent listings

JoHn Hiway Theater presents a dance-theater work

by Lloyd Newson depicting stories of a life of crime and drugs 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29, 212 Old York Road, Jenkintown; 267864-0065.

John oliver The comedian performs at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Jan. 23 at Tower Theatre, 19 S. 69th St., Upper Darby; 610352-2887. a life in theatre Walnut Street Theatre presents the Pulitzer Prizewinning David Mamet comedy through Feb. 1 at Independence Studio on 3, 825 Walnut St.; 215574-3550.

Marky Ramone The author of “Punk Rock

Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone” hosts a reading 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at Central Library, 1901 Vine St.; 215-567-4341. the Miracle Worker Media Theatre presents the story of Helen Keller and her relationship with her governess Jan. 28-Feb. 15, 104 E. State St., Media; 610-891-0100. the natural, the Material and the Physical: landscape through the Photographic eye The Gershman Y hosts an exhibition of landscape images by various regional photographers through March 29, 401 S. Broad St.; 215545-4400.

ReBel YelleR: With his new autobiography (“Dancing With Myself”) and a new album (“Kings and Queens of the Underground”) out, punk-rock superstar Billy Idol is hitting the road and making rock singers half his age look lazy and tame by comparison.

Catch him when he performs 8 p.m. Jan. 24 at Tower Theatre, 19 S. 69th St., Upper Darby. For more information or tickets, call 610-352-2887.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT PGN LISTINGS

Pig Iron Theatre’s Pigonometry Martha Graham Cracker, Brian Sanders’ JUNK and more perform at the theater company’s annual cabaret 7:30 p.m. Jan. 23 at the Trocadero Theatre, 1003 Arch St.; 215-922-6888.

THE HEART OF DARKNESS: Hiway Theater presents “JOHN,” the latest explicit and controversial work by Lloyd Newson and DV8 Physical Theater depicting one man’s harrowing struggle to survive amid a life of crime and drugs, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29 at 212 Old York Road in Jenkintown. For more information or tickets, call 267-864-0065.

Private Lives Walnut Street Theatre presents Noël Coward’s comedy about a divorced couple that ends up honeymooning with their new spouses at the same French seaside resort through March 1, 825 Walnut St.; 215574-3550.

Represent: 200 Years of African American Art Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition highlighting its collection of African-American art through April 5, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

St. Petersburg Festival 3 The Philadelphia Orchestra pairs the works of Beethoven and Shostakovich Jan. 28-31 at Kimmel’s Verizon Hall, 260 S. Broad St.; 215790-5847.

Under the Skin Arden Theatre Company presents the drama about a daughter struggling with the decision to donate her kidney to her estranged father through March 15, 40 N. Second St.; 215922-1122.

Vitra-Design, Architecture, Communication: A European Project with American Roots

Philadelphia Museum of Art presents some of the most innovative designs from the family-owned Swiss company through April 26, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100.

Music Marilyn Manson The shock rocker performs 8:30 p.m.

Jan. 23 at The Electric Factory, 421 N. Seventh St.; 800-745-3000.

Billy Idol The punk-rock icon performs 8 p.m. Jan. 24 at Tower Theatre, 19 S. 69th St., Upper Darby; 610-3522887.

The Smithereens The rock band performs 8 p.m. Jan. 24 at World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St.; 215-222-1400.

Machine Head The heavy-metal band performs 8 p.m. Jan. 29 at Underground Arts, 1200 Callowhill St.; www.undergroundarts.org.

Erin McKeown The out singer-songwriter performs 8 p.m. Jan. 30 at Tin Angel, 20 S. Second St.; 215928-0978.

Nightlife Happy Bear The bear-themed happy hour, 5-9 p.m. Jan. 23 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675.

Miss Boxed Wine Pageant The celebration of queens who aren’t afraid to look their worst and display questionable talents 10 p.m.-2 a.m.

Jan. 24 at Voyeur Nightclub, 1221 St. James St.; 215-7355772.

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Marigold Kitchen blooms with adventurous menu

By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com

Tucked away on an unassuming and quiet street, Marigold Kitchen, 501 S. 45th St., a cozy New American BYOB restaurant, sets the relaxed and tranquil mood for diners before they set sail on one of the more interesting and delightfully fun multiple-course meals to be had in the city.

The concept is simple: Show up and sit down for a 14-course dinner ($90). The chefs will take any dietary restrictions into consideration, but otherwise you are in their capable hands and pleasantly in the dark about what is coming until it is brought to the table. Strap in, because you are in for quite the ride.

The menu takes some interesting stylistic twists and turns, Haus of Ham sometimes drawing from Southern influDrag Brunch ences and other times Asian inspirations.

Rise and shine with One reoccurring theme on the night we your favorite drag went was popcorn, which worked very queens noon Jan. 25 well at a number of turns. at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675.

Outta Town Linkin Park The modern rock band performs 7 p.m. Jan. 23 at Boardwalk Hall, 2301 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-348-7000.

Sally Kellerman The actor and singer performs 8 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Rrazz Room, in The Ramada New Hope, 6426 Lower York Road, New Hope; 888-5961027.

Vince Gill and Lyle Lovett The country singers perform 7:30 p.m.

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The entire meal was finely crafted, visually engaging and whimsical throughout. There wasn’t any course that didn’t impress, but we’re going to preserve some of the mystery and only go into the courses that shined the brightest.

The pumpkin bisque started off the meal with a subtle savory pumpkin flavor and a warm and silky texture, punctuated by the crunch of toasted popcorn and fresh, finely chopped apple. The wild-mushroom dish, topped with puff pastry and a poached egg, was surprisingly decadent.

The veal sweetbreads were small in portion but huge in flavors. The sweet-

breads were tender with a barbeque-like flavor profile and they rested atop some amazing popcorn-flavored grits that were blissfully buttery.

The pumpkin nigri delivered a convincing sushi experience despite having no fish anywhere in the dish.

The creamsicle, a dollop of potent blood-orange sorbet in a spoonful of

vanilla milk, was an amazingly aggressive version of the flavors one would expect from the classic ice-cream-truck treat. Another inventive take on a classic was the clam chowder, which was a deconstructed dish of clams and potatoes drizzled in a lovely cream sauce.

The best dish of the meal was the venison, perfectly cooked with a savory chocolate bread pudding.

Marigold’s take on wine and cheese is presented like a parfait but has the caramelized sweetness of a crème brûlée.

A dining experience like this can be fun and exhilarating under the right circumstances and, given the talent in the kitchen at Marigold Kitchen, it’s a culinary adventure that everyone should experience. n

If you go Marigold Kitchen

501 S. 45th St. 215-222-3699 www.marigoldkitchenbyob.com Hours: Tues.-Sat.: 6-8:30 p.m.

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Legal Notices

HOURS OF OPERATION:

Court of Common Pleas for the County of Philadelphia, November Term, 2014, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 20, 2014, the petition of Jacqueline Mary Alyanakian was filed, praying for a decree to change his name to Jac Mikael Alyanakian.

The Court has fixed February 11, 2015 at 11:30 AM, in Room No. 691, in Philadelphia City Hall for hearing. All persons interested may appear and show cause if they have, why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be granted. ________________________________________39-04 Court of Common Pleas for the County of Philadelphia, November Term, 2014, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on November 13, 2014, the petition of Iva Victoria Goldsmith was filed, praying for a decree to change his name to Ivan Victor Goldsmith.

The Court has fixed February 11, 2015 at 11:30 AM, in Room No. 691, in Philadelphia City Hall for hearing. All persons interested may appear and show cause if they have, why the prayer of the said petitioner should not be granted. ________________________________________39-04

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Activism/Politics

ACT-UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) meets 6-9 p.m. Mondays at St. Luke and The Epiphany Church, 330 S. 13th St.; 215-386-1981, www.actupphilly.org.

Delaware Valley Chapter, Americans United for Separation of Church and State seeks activists and supporters of church-state separation. Holds monthly meetings and events; www.dvau.org.

Equality Pennsylvania holds a volunteer night 5:30 p.m. the second Tuesday of the month, 1211 Chestnut St., Suite 605; 215-731-1447, www.equalitypa.org.

Green Party of Philadelphia holds general meetings 7 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month, except August and December; 215-243-7103, www.gpop.org.

Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club meets seasonally; www.libertycity.org.

Arts

Library Book Club meets to discuss a new book 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month at William Way. Men On Tap, an LGBT group that performs with choirs, organizations and at the Fringe Festival, rehearses 8 p.m.

Mondays at The Bike Stop, 206 S. Quince St.; dale@ magicalfantasies.com.

Philadelphia Freedom Band, an audition-free LGBT band that does concerts and parades, rehearses 7-9:30 p.m.

Mondays; philadelphiafreedomband.com.

Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus rehearses 7-10 p.m.

Wednesdays; 215-731-9230, auditions@pgmc.org.

Philadelphia Gay Men’s Opera Club meets to share and listen to recordings 6:30 p.m. the last Saturday of the month; 215-732-7898.

Philadelphia Voices of Pride, Philadelphia’s first mixed LGBT chorus, rehearses 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays at William Way; www.pvop.org.

Queer Writer’s Collective workshop and discussion group meets 3-5 p.m. the fourth Saturday of the month at William Way. Reading Queerly, open to all women and genderqueer/ trans people, meets 6:45 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at Giovanni’s Room, 345 S. 12th St.

Recreation

Gay Bridge Club non-beginners group meets Monday 2-5 p.m. at William Way; reservations required. Call 215732-2220.

Gay-friendly Scrabble Club meets 5:30-10:30 p.m. at Abner’s Steaks, 38th and Chester streets; 215-382-0789.

Humboldt Society: Lesbian and Gay Naturalists meets 7:30 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at William Way; 215-985-1456, www.humboldtsociety.org.

Independence Squares LGBT square-dance club, modern Western square dancing hosts an open house and Tuesday classes in the fall at Lutheran Church, 2111 Sansom St.; philadances@gmail.com, www.independencesquares.org.

Male Oenophile Group forming to discuss, appreciate and taste various wines. Will meet once a month to investigate the nuances and glories of the fermented grape; 267-2306750.

Mornings OUT LGBT Senior Social activities for senior gay men are held 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesdays at William Way. PhilaVentures, Philadelphia’s LGBT outdoor group, meets for hikes in Wissahickon Valley and Valley Forge Park; philaventures.org.

Sports

Brandywine Women’s Rugby Club meets for practice at p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays at Greenfield Park, West Chester; www.brandywinerugby.org.

City of Brotherly Love Softball League serves the Philadelphia metropolitan area with games on Sundays, beginning in April, at the Dairy and Edgeley Fields in Fairmount Park; www.cblsl.org.

Frontrunners running club meets 9:30 a.m. Saturdays for a run and brunch at Lloyd Hall, No. 1 Boathouse Row; www.philadelphiafrontrunners.org.

Philadelphia Falcons Soccer Club, open to LGBT and allies, practices 8-10 p.m. Mondays and 2-4 p.m.

Saturdays; www.falcons-soccer.org.

Philadelphia Fins Swim Team, open to male and female swimmers, meets 7 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Friends Select School and 10:30 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays; www.philadelphia-fins.org.

Philadelphia Gay Bowling League meets 8:30 p.m.

Wednesdays September-April at Brunswick Zone,

1328 Delsea Drive, Deptford, N.J.; 856-889-1434, www. philagaybowling.com.

Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League plays 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays at FDR Park; www.phillyflagfootball.com Philadelphia Gryphons Rugby Football Club, open to players of all skill levels, meets 7:45 p.m. Thursdays at Columbus Square Park, 1200 Wharton St.; 215-913-7531, philadelphiagryphons.org, becomeagryphon@gmail.com.

Philadelphia Liberty Belles women’s semi-pro full-tackle football league holds fall tryouts; phillybelles.com.

Philadelphia Liberty Tennis Association plays yearround, all skill levels welcome; philadelphialibertytennis. com.

Philadelphia Firebirds women’s football team seeks players; www.philadelphiafirebirds.com.

Philadelphia Women’s Baseball League seeks players, all skill levels and ages. Practice is 7 p.m. Thursdays at Marian Anderson Recreation Center, 17th and Fitzwater streets, with games at 2:30 p.m. Sundays; 215-991-5995 (day), 301-919-1194 (evening), phillywomensbaseball. com.

Philly Gay Hockey Association Philadelphia Phury seeks players; 917-656-1936, phury@gayhockey.org.

Philly QCycle LGBT bicycling club promotes organized recreational riding for all levels in the Greater Philadelphia region; contact the organization via Facebook.

Rainbow Riders of the Delaware Valley motorcycle club meets regularly; 215-836-0440, www.groups.yahoo.com/ group/rainbowridersdv/.

Rainbow Rollers gay and lesbian bowling league meets 7:45 p.m. Tuesdays at Boulevard Lanes in Northeast Philadelphia; rainbowrollers.com.

Spartan Wrestling Club gay wrestling team meets 6:30-9 p.m. Mondays at the First Unitarian Church, 2125 Chestnut St.; 215-732-4545, www.phillyspartans.com.

Etc.

AIDS Law Project provides free legal assistance to people with HIV/AIDS and sponsors free monthly seminars on work and housing at 1211 Chestnut St., Suite 600; 215587-9377, www.aidslawpa.org.

BiUnity, Philadelphia-area social and support network for bisexuals, their family members and friends; http://biunity. org.

Delaware Valley Pink Pistols, for LGBT people dedicated to legal, safe and responsible use of firearms for self-defense, meets 2 p.m. the third Saturday of the month at Classic Indoor Range, 1310 Industrial Blvd., Southampton; 610-879-2364; www.pinkpistols.org.

Delaware Pride holds planning meetings 7 p.m. the first Thursday of the month at the United Church of Christ, 300 Main St., Newark; 302-265-3020, delawarepride.org.

Haverford College’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance holds open meetings 10-11 p.m. Mondays during the school year in the lounge in Jones Basement at Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave.; 610-896-4938.

Men and Women for Human Excellence support group meets from noon-2 p.m. the first and third Saturdays of the month at 26th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue; 267-2733513, cmoore8300@yahoo.com.

Long Yang Club Philadelphia, social organization for gay Asians and their friends, holds monthly socials; www. longyangclub.org/philadelphia.

Our Night Out, a casual social networking party of LGBT professionals, friends and colleagues, meets in a different Philadelphia hot spot each month. To receive monthly event invitations, email OurNightOutPhilly@gmail.com; more information on Facebook.

Philadelphia Bar Association Legal Advice offered 5-8 p.m. the third Wednesday of the month; 215-238-6333.

Philadelphia Prime Timers club for mature gay and bisexual men and their admirers meets regularly; primetimersofphiladelphia@yahoo.com.

Philadelphians MC Club, for leather men and women, meets 7:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at The Pit at The Bike Stop, 201 S. Quince St.; philadelphiansmc.org.

Rainbow Amateur Radio Association ARRL-affiliated, weekly HF nets, quarterly newsletter; www.rara.org.

Silver Foxes, a social and educational group for gays and lesbians 50 and older, meets 3-5 p.m. the fourth Sunday of the month at William Way; 215-732-2220.

SNJ Queers meets monthly for queer/queer-friendly folks in South Jersey to mix and mingle; 856-375-3708, wmf69@comast.net.

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Community Bulletin Board Community centers

■ The Attic Youth Center 255 S. 16th St.; 215-545-4331, atticyouthcenter.org. For LGBT and questioning youth and their friends and allies. Groups meet and activities are held 4-7 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and 4-8:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday. Case management, HIV testing and smoking cessation are available Monday-Friday.

■ Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center at the University of Pennsylvania 3907 Spruce St., 215-898-5044, center@dolphin. upenn.edu. Regular hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. MondayThursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; noon-6 p.m. Saturday; noon-8 p.m. Sunday. Summer hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

■ ActionAIDS: 215-981-0088 ■ AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania: 215-587-9377 ■ AIDS Law Project of Southern New Jersey: 856-933-9500 ext.

221 ■ AIDS Library: 215-985-4851 ■ ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215592-1513 ■ AIDS Treatment Fact line: 800662-6080 ■ Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection at the Independence Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library: 215-685-1633 n The COLOURS Organization Inc.: 215-496-0330

■ Rainbow Room: Bucks County’s LGBTQ and Allies Youth Center Salem UCC Education Building, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981 ext.

9065, rainbowroom@ppbucks.org. Activities held 6-8 p.m. Wednesdays.

■ William Way Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220, www.waygay.org.

Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays Peer counseling: 6-9 p.m.

Monday-Friday Library: noon-9 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Volunteers: New Orientation, first Wednesday of the month at 7:30 p.m.

Key numbers ■ District Attorney LGBT Liaison:Helen “Nellie” Fitzpatrick, 215-686-9980, helen.fitzpatrick@ phila.gov ■ Equality Pennsylvania: 215731-1447; www.equalitypa.org ■ Equality Forum: 215-732-3378 ■ LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK ■ Mazzoni Center: 215-563-0652; Legal Services: 215-563-0657, 866-LGBT-LAW; Family & Community Medicine: 215-563-0658 ■ Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833

■ Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations: 215-686-4670 ■ Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force: 1-877-pride-2000 ■ Philadelphia Police Department liaison — Deputy Commissioner Kevin Bethel: 215-6863318 ■ Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-760-3686 (Rick Lombardo); ppd.lgbt@gmail.com ■ Philly Pride Presents: 215875-9288 ■ SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-9209537 ■ Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207 (staffed 3-6 p.m. Wednesdays and 6-9 p.m.

Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays)

Health

Anonymous, free, confidential HIV testing Spanish/English counselors offer testing 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Monday-Thursday at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, 216 W. Somerset St.; 215-763-8870.

ActionAIDS Provides a range of programs for people affected by HIV/ AIDS, including case management, prevention, testing and education services at 1216 Arch St.; 215-981-0088, www. actionaids.org.

GALAEI: A Queer Latin@ Social Justice Organization Free, anonymous HIV testing from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday at 1207 Chestnut St., fifth floor; noon-6 p.m.

Tuesdays at the Washington West Project, 1201 Locust St.; 215-851-1822 or 866-222-3871, www.galaei.org.

Spanish/English HIV treatment Free HIV/AIDS diagnosis and treatment for Philadelphia residents are available from 9 a.m.-noon Mondays (walk-in) and 5-8 p.m. Thursdays (by appointment) at Health Center No. 2, 1720 S. Broad St.; 215685-1821.

HIV health insurance help Access to free medications and confidential HIV testing 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays at 13 S. MacDade Blvd., Suite

■ Gay and Lesbian Lawyers of Philadelphia Board meetings at 6:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at 100 S. Broad St., Suite 1810; free referral service at 215-6279090, www.galloplaw.org.

■ Independence Business Alliance Greater Philadelphia’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce, providing networking, business development, marketing, educational and advocacy opportunities for LGBT and LGBT-friendly busi-

108, Collingdale; Medical Office Building, 722 Church Lane, Yeadon; and 630 S. 60th St.; 610-586-9077.

Mazzoni Center LGBTQ counseling and behavioral health services, HIV/ AIDS care and services, case management and support groups; 21 S. 12th St., eighth floor; 215-563-0652, www. mazzonicenter.org.

Mazzoni Center Family & Community Medicine Comprehensive primary health care, preventive health services, gynecology, sexual-health services and chronic-disease management, including comprehensive HIV care, as well as youth drop-in (ages 14-24) 5-7p.m. Wednesdays; 809 Locust St.; 215-563-0658.

Philadelphia FIGHT Comprehensive AIDS service organization providing primary care, consumer education, advocacy and research on potential treatments and vaccines; 1233 Locust St.; 215985-4448; www.fight.org.

Washington West Project of Mazzoni Center Free, anonymous HIV testing. Walk-ins welcome 9 a.m.-9 pm. Monday-Friday, 1-5 p.m. Saturday; 1201 Locust St.; 215-985-9206.

Professional groups nesses and professionals; 215557-0190, www.IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com.

■ National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association Philadelphia chapter of NLGJA, open to professionals and students, meets for social and networking events; www.nlgja.org/ philly; philly@nlgja.org.

■ Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus Regional organization dedicated to promoting LGBT tourism to the Greater Philadelphia region, meetings every other month on the fourth Thursday (January, March, May, July, September and the third Thursday in November), open to the public; 215-8402039, www.philadelphiagaytourism.com.

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