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Philadelphia wins big at Police mum on questionable Gay Games Morris records By Timothy Cwiek and Kristen Demilio timothy@epgn.com editor@epgn.com
By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com Team Philadelphia took home 38 medals at the 10th annual “gay Olympics” sports competition in Paris, France. Sixty LGBTQ-identified athletes comprising the Philadelphia team made their way to Paris to compete in 18 sporting events at the Gay Games, which took place Aug. 4-12. The Gay Games, a quadrennial event that began in 1982 in San Francisco, hosted close to 12,000 participants from more than 80 countries. Philadelphia’s team secured 10 gold medals in figure skating, swimming, basketball and softball. The Philadelphia Fusion softball team won its third gold medal, making it the undefeated champ for the last 12 years. Joseph Bland, Fusion coach, helped to coordinate and organize the city’s Gay Games team with the Out Philly Athletic League, a nonprofit organization for the LGBTQ sports leagues in the Greater Philadelphia region. “The Gay Games helps to bring visibility to out athletes across the world who may have had to struggle with being gay and being an athlete,” he said. “I hear a lot of stories about gay people who don’t try at athletics when they’re younger because they were afraid of getting made fun of. The Games are a great way for people to realize that they are capable of being an athlete and being openly gay as well.” The International Federation of Gay Games is the global governing body for the event, the world’s “largest sports and cultural event open to all,” according to its website. The federation is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization where represen-
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tatives spanning six continents serve on its board of directors. Since 1982, the Gay Games has taken place in six countries. Antoine Johnson was one of Team Philadelphia’s medal winners, capturing a bronze in the 110-meter hurdle event. It was Johnson’s first time participating in the Gay Games and his first time competing as an openly gay athlete. “I come from a very religious family, and in college, I didn’t feel comfortable being out as an athlete. I remember several kids being followed and getting beat up after leaving LGBT support groups, so I kept it to myself,” he said. “I never thought that I would have the opportunity to be out and compete without people treating me differently.” Johnson entered the games with a hamstring injury. Two weeks before the Gay Games, he pulled his right hamstring, shortly after recovering from pulling his left hamstring a month earlier. Despite his doctor’s orders, Johnson flew to Paris to compete. “I knew that there was no way I wasn’t PAGE 16
Philadelphia police this week declined to explain questionable paperwork in the Nizah Morris homicide that officers involved in a courtesy ride given to Morris shortly before she was found with a fatal head wound submitted to their supervisors. One of the documents contains a patrol-log entry that wasn’t included in a 46-page Police Internal Affairs investigative file on the Morris incident that was released to the public last month. But a PGN reporter located the missing pages in his own files, accumulated over the past 15 years covering this case. Of particular concern to Morris advocates is a patrol-activity log entry written by Officer Kenneth Novak, one of three officers dispatched to investigate Morris on the morning of her fatal head injury in December 2002. The trans woman of color had been drinking at what was the Key West Bar, at Juniper and Chancellor streets. She needed medical attention
due to her level of inebriation. But after arriving at the scene, Officer Elizabeth Skala canceled a call for medics and reportedly transported Morris three blocks to 15th and Walnut streets, where the officer said she thought Morris lived. Novak’s exact movements during this time remain unclear. According to 911 records, the ride began at 3:13 a.m Dec. 22. At 3:25 a.m., a passerby called 911 to report a woman on the ground at 16th and Walnut, bleeding from a head wound. At 3:30 a.m., another officer, Thomas Berry, arrived at the post-injury scene, 911 records indicate. Medics transported Morris, who was still alive, to Jefferson University Hospital. She died 64 hours later from the effects of blunt-force trauma to the head. All three officers involved were summoned to Jefferson a few hours after the courtesy ride because Morris’ attending physician believed she was a crime victim. Advocates for Morris have long been concerned that Skala, Novak and Berry colluded to falsify paperwork at Jefferson in order to avoid documenting that the ride happened. PAGE 16 Skala and Novak were based in
NGLCC conference hosts opening reception at Reading Terminal Market By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com The National LGBT Chamber of Commerce ushered in its annual International Business and Leadership Conference with a welcome reception at Reading Terminal Market. More than 1,000 guests from around the world filled one of the city’s most popular landmarks Tuesday night to wrap up the first day of NGLCC’s four-day conference. The reception was hosted by the NGLCC’s Philadelphia Chamber, the Independence Business Alliance. Guests explored the city’s oldest public market, housed since 1893 in a National Historic Landmark building, grabbing complimentary drinks and food samples catered by some of the Terminal’s merchant
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stands such as Hershel’s East Side Deli, Molly Malloy’s and Dinic’s Pork and Beef. Attendees introduced themselves to fellow con-
ference guests or greeted friends they may not have seen since the last conference. Trung Tieu, PAGE 16 associate man-
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Legal resources • ACLU of Pennsylvania: 215-592-1513; aclupa.org • AIDS Law Project of PA: 215-587-9377; aidslawpa.org • AIDS Law Project of South Jersey: 856-784-8532; aidslawsnj.org/ • Equality PA: equalitypa. org; 215-731-1447
• Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations — Rue Landau: 215-686-4670 • Philadelphia Police Liaison Committee: 215-7603686; ppd.lgbt@gmail.com • SPARC — Statewide Pennsylvania Rights Coalition: 717-920-9537
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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. • LGBT Center at the University of Pennsylvania; 3907 Spruce
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Salem UCC Education Building, 181 E. Court St., Doylestown; 215-957-7981 ext. 9065, rainbowroom@ppbucks.org.
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Health and HIV testing • Action Wellness: 1216 Arch St.; 215981-0088, actionwellness.org
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• AIDS Treatment Fact line: 800-6626080
• Bebashi-Transition to Hope: 1235 Spring Garden St.; 215769-3561; bebashi.org
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216 W. Somerset St.; 215-763-8870
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1348 Bainbridge St.; 215-563-0652, mazzonicenter.org
• Philadelphia FIGHT: 1233 Locust St.; 215-985-4448, fight.org
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• Transgender Health Action Coalition: 215-732-1207
Other • Independence Branch Library Barbara Gittings Gay and Lesbian Collection: 215-685-1633 • Independence Business Alliance; 215-557-0190, IndependenceBusinessAlliance.com
• LGBT Peer Counseling Services: 215-732-TALK • PFLAG: Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (Philadelphia): 215-572-1833 • Philly Pride Presents: 215-875-9288
Pop-up vegan market a hit hand and body soaps, shampoo, bug spray and bath bombs with ingredients such as aloe water, organic coconut oil, hemp oil Philly Vegan Pop Flea, a pop-up vegan and thickening agents made from trees. “Last year, I discovered that I like women market, hosted its first-ever Queerly Vegan, which gave new and emerging LGBTQ veg- and this is a new field for me,” she said. an-business owners a platform to develop “This was the perfect opportunity to introduce myself into a community that I’m now their brands. Despite flash-flood warnings, hundreds a part of and to sell products that I believe of vistors filled Repair the World Workshop in.” Although the market featured a majority in West Philadelphia at the one-day-only market Aug. 11. Eight LGBTQ-vegan and of LGBTQ business owners, the event also vegetable-friendly small-business owners included ally businesses such as Nourishing Our Minds, an online plant-based food participated in the event. delivery service that Marino Benedetto, specializes in soul owner of the New and Caribbean fare. York-based vegJonay Prailow and an-hot dog comher husband, venpany Yeah Dawg, dors at Saturday’s said he traveled to event, also attended Philadelphia for Philly Vegan Pop the event because it Flea’s Power of showcases the diverColor pop-up market sity of business ownin July for business ers. owners of color. The “Supporting these popular response types of events is compelled the couimportant because ple to participate in in the general food another market, she world, it’s not very said. LGBT-friendly. In “The Power of my experience sellColor market was ing my packaged hot our first opportunity dogs, if you don’t fit to vend our products into the gender stein a physical space, reotypes, it makes and the reception the process harder,” to our food was so Benedetto said. overwhelmingly posA PGN reporter itive that we had to tasted his Cali Kush come back again,” Dog, the vegetaPrailow said. “Even ble-based hot dog though I’m not a part slathered a chipotle of the LGBTQ commayo, coconut bacon munity, I know what and kale Caesar it’s like to be a marsalad, and proginalized voice in a nounced it “amazfield that typically ing.” doesn’t have a lot of Benedetto has been African-American selling his vegan hot perspective. My dogs for more than goal is to introduce three years. In 2012, more of these vegan he started street food options to the vending in Brooklyn African-American at similar pop-up THE CALI KUSH DOG (FROM TOP), V community to motimarkets. Customers MARKS THE SHOP OWNER CARLO vate my community demanded a packGIARDINA AND SANTOSHA OWNER to eat better and aged product, he said. ERICA PACIELLO Photos: Adriana Fraser avoid serious health Benedetto now sells risks.” his vegan hot dogs Erin Smedley, a body-builder who came — made with sunflower seeds, beets, sweet potatoes, carrots and gluten-free flour — in up from Maryland to check out the event, more than 60 stores across the Northeast, was excited to attend the market because it represented both her queer and vegan including five stores in Philadelphia. Erica Paciello, owner of the natural identities. “I live in Annapolis and there’s not really body-product business Santosha, was interested in the Queerly Market as a way to a thriving vegan scene — there’s definitely meet more LGBTQ-identified people in nothing that celebrates queerness along a field that she “accidentally” stumbled with veganism,” she said. “If there are more into when giving loved ones homemade events like this, I’ll be making my way to Christmas gifts. Paciello makes all-natural Philadelphia more often.” n
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Catholic agency files appeal in U.S. Supreme Court By Timothy Cwiek timothy@epgn.com Attorneys for Catholic Social Services filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting an emergency order for the resumption of foster-child referrals from the city, even though CSS won’t place those children with same-sex couples. City officials suspended the referrals in March after published reports about CSS’ anti-LGBT policies. CSS also won’t place children in homes headed by unmarried opposite-sex couples. City officials maintain such exclusion violates the city’s Fair Practices Ordinance because CSS was receiving city funding. CSS claims the city is violating its religious-freedom and free-speech rights. While CSS’ legal challenge is pending in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, on July 31 the agency filed an emergency appeal for the resumption of city referrals with the U.S. Supreme Court. CSS’ appeal has been assigned to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who handles such emergency requests for the Philadelphia region. As of presstime,
Alito hadn’t rendered a decision. “CSS faces the irreparable loss of a religious ministry that it has grown and cultivated for decades and for which it has almost no hope of restarting, were it forced to close during this litigation,” CSS’ 47-page appeal states. “The foster mothers similarly face the total loss of their religious exercise and the possibility that the children placed in their homes will again be harmed by being forced to move elsewhere. A temporary injunction [ordering additional referrals] costs the City nothing. But the lack of an injunction costs CSS, the foster families it serves, and the children they serve, everything.” On Aug. 13, city attorneys filed a response to CSS’ appeal, emphasizing the city’s commitment to providing foster-care services in a bias-free manner. The city’s 36-page response also asserts that city officials don’t harbor animus against Catholicism. Moreover, the brief notes that CSS is expected to receive more than $18 million from the city in 2018-19 for youth-related services, apart from foster-care services. Neither side had a comment for this story. n
RAIN DANCE: Delaware Pride revelers joined in line dancing under the entertainment tent Aug. 11 in Dover. Several-hundred people made their way to the statehouse lawn despite threatening and rainy skies for the 21st annual event. Delaware Pride is looking for volunteers for its next event. For more information, visit facebook.com/ DelawarePride/. Photo: Tom Feaser
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Progressive candidate gains key political endorsements By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com Malcolm Kenyatta has secured a series of endorsements in an effort to “build a coalition of Democrats” ahead of the November midterm elections, where he will likely be elected as the first LGBTQ person of color to serve in the state legislature. Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Pennsylvania Sen. Bob Casey and New Jersey Sen. Corey Booker announced their support for Kenyatta — the Democratic candidate running for state representative in the 181st House District — ahead of the candidate’s recent campaign fundraiser at the Bellevue Hotel in Center City Aug. 8. PGN asked Kenyatta about his recent endorsements from non-progressive candidates. “I’m focused on building as big of a coalition of Democrats at all levels of government who want to start moving us in a different direction than the Republican legislature and the Republicans controlling things in Washington have done in the last year.” Of the high-profile endorsements, Kenyatta said: “I’m excited that the entire Democratic Party is ready to support me to ensure that we’re successful in November.” Many people who fall in line with Trump’s values don’t think that a poor black kid from North Philly should be serving in Harrisburg.”
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Local progressive groups such as Philly For Change and the political action group Liberty City LGBT Democratic Club backed Kenyatta’s campaign. Henry Sias, co-chair of Liberty City, said Democrats of all kinds coming together to make and enforce laws representing the party’s shared values is “fundamental to how democracy works.” “When I see non-progressive candidates endorse Kenyatta, I’m seeing a recognition from these politicians who have been doing this for a long time that he is important to the future of the Democratic Party,” he said. Sias added that Kenyatta is “a strong candidate because he’s been knocking on doors that haven’t been knocked on.” As the midterms draw near, Liberty City will lead a Get Out the Vote campaign that
targets areas in the city with low voter turnouts. “We need to preserve our voice in the voting booth,” Kenyatta said. “There’s a growing awareness among younger people, people of color and LGBTQ people that there are folks out there who don’t want us to vote. The right to vote feels even more precious when we know there are people who want to disenfranchise us. Those doors have to get knocked on, those calls need to be made.” In a packed room of supporters Aug. 8, Kenyatta emphasized his campaign initiatives, repeatedly saying, “We have work to do” when it comes to having “strong public schools in every part of [the] city,” a minimum-wage increase to $15 an hour and “common-sense” gun-control laws. “The people who Trump has put around him are people who don’t want to see working-class people get ahead, nor do they want barriers removed for marginalized groups,” Kenyatta told PGN after his fundraiser. “We need to bring as many people together to push against that agenda.” Kenney, who appointed Kenyatta to the Mayor’s Commission on LGBT Affairs, complimented the activist-turned-political-candidate for his “intellect, compassion, positive energy and altruism” and for taking on “the serious issues and problems that confront the poor and working families in Philadelphia and throughout
Pennsylvania.” Booker of New Jersey similarly voiced his support for the progressive candidate, “because he will stand up for working families in the fight to ensure that every Pennsylvanian makes a livable wage and that every child has access to the highest-quality public-school education,” he said during a visit to the city Aug. 7 for the 57th annual session gathering for the Progressive National Baptist Convention. In a statement, Casey said, “North Philadelphia needs Malcolm Kenyatta fighting for them in Harrisburg.” After winning a five-way primary in May’s election, Kenyatta faces Republican opponent Thomas Street in the November general election. The 181st District covers parts of North and North Central Philadelphia, Yorktown, Francisville, Glenwood, West Popular, Northern Liberties and Old Kensington. The Human Rights Campaign, the national LGBTQ civil-rights advocacy group, announced Aug. 13 it was endorsing Kenyatta. Allison VanKuiken, HRC Pennsylvania state director, said in a statement: “In the face of a federal administration hell-bent on turning back the clock and a state legislature that has refused to take action to protect the thousands of LGBTQ Pennsylvanians, endorsing pro-equality candidates in races up and down the ballot has never been more important. n
Former Advocate editor lands new job in Philly By Adriana Fraser adriana@epgn.com
“Next City is for those who are thirsting for stories that are going unreported and unfulfilled nationally. If you look The former editor-in-chief of The at Washington right now, it has long Advocate was named the newest exec- stopped working the way it’s supposed utive director of an urban-affairs jour- to,” Grindley said. “The only way to change nationwide problems and what’s nalism organizahappening on the Hill is to reach outside tion that looks Washington and bring good ideas from to impact social, one city to the next city.” economic and Grindley plans to continue to impact e nv i r o n m e n t a l changes in city policies with the change one city Philadelphia-based organization, similar at a time. to some of the work he’s done as the top L u c a s editor of The Advocate, he said. Grindley will “The Pew Research Center recently head Next City, put out a report saying that there’s a founded in 45-percent reduction of employees in 2003, to invesnewsrooms. The mission of newspapers, tigate how and I believe, is to find great ideas that spark why cities influence change. LUCAS GRINDLEY change or champion people who are Non-profit orgaPhoto: Yannick Delva marginalized, and now there’s 45-percent less of that going on. Next City is nizations such attempting to fill that void in connecting as the Ford Foundation, the William Penn Foundation those ideas from city to city. If we have and the MacArthur Foundation fund to change the country one city at a time, Next City along with close to 800 pay- then that’s how we’ll do it.” Eric Shaw, chair of the Next City board ing members. Grindley relocated from Los Angeles of directors, led the search committee to Philadelphia — along with his hus- that selected Grindley. Grindley’s “experience in media and band and twin daughters — to help “change the country city by city,” he said. commitment to social justice, innovation
and lifting up the voices of underrepresented communities make him the perfect leader for the Next City organization,” Shaw said in a statement. Next City is an independent, nonpartisan organization that targets young, college-educated professionals. Sixty percent of Next City’s audience are readers under the age of 40. According to its website, Next City is looking to create “a world in which cities are not in crisis and are instead leading the way toward a more sustainable, equitable future.” The nonprofit started as a quarterly magazine in 2003 known as The Next American City. The magazine was last printed in 2011 and renamed Next City in 2012 after the publication was moved entirely online. Although content is available on Next City’s website, with articles such as “How these Portland residents got to own a piece of their neighborhood” and “How this community fought for $70 million in cleanup funds — and won,” readers can access additional content with the membership. As executive director, Grindley’s first priority is raising money to continue Next City’s mission to localize issues such as immigration, climate change and gentrification. The board of directors launched
the Welcome Campaign fundraiser on Facebook Aug. 8 to introduce Grindley to readers. Within one day, Next City raised more than half of its $1,000 fundraising goal. The campaign is a smallscale fundraiser that helps support events such as Next City’s annual Vanguard Conference. The conference — which is hosted in a different city across the country and around the world — brings together up to 50 young “urban leaders” working in sectors such as urban planning, community development, government, design, art and media. As president of Pride Media, the largest LGBTQ media company in the country, Grindley oversaw operations for LGBTQ sites including The Advocate magazine, Out magazine, Pride.com, Out Traveler, Chill magazine and Plus magazine. He said his experience working within the LGBTQ community has prepared him to take the helm at Next City: “The missions are compatible and complementary.” “I’m excited to move into a new position where I can still go to work every day and feel like I’m doing something for the world. Now is the time to mobilize cities to create change, because we’re facing the problem of having a national government that isn’t serving us the best way it could.” n
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International Costa Rica supreme court: gay marriage ban unconstitutional Costa Rica’s supreme court has given the country’s legislature 18 months to change the law to allow gay marriage. The court voted Aug. 8 to make gay marriage legal, declaring that existing laws banning it were unconstitutional. Magistrate Fernando Castillo said in a news conference that the laws were inconsistent with an opinion issued in January by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. That court said countries, such as Costa Rica, that had signed the American Convention on Human Rights had to take immediate action to legalize gay marriage. Castillo said that if the legislature does not make the necessary changes within 18 months, gay marriage will automatically become legal because the current ban will cease to exist.
Media Trail Democrats pick gay NativeAmerican nominee in Kansas The Brownsville Herald reports Sharice Davids shattered the mold for a congressional primary winner from ruby-red Kansas on Aug. 8, becoming the state’s first Native American and gay nominee for Congress. The 38-year-old attorney and activist prevailed in a close six-candidate Democratic primary Aug. 7 and will face four-term Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder. Democrats are targeting Yoder because Democrat Hillary Clinton narrowly won the district in the 2016 presidential race. Republicans hold all four Kansas seats in the U.S. House but Democrats hope to flip two of them in November. Davids was raised by a single mother and earned a law degree from Cornell University. She was a White House fellow during Barack Obama’s presidency. And she’s a former mixed-martial-arts fighter who introduced herself to fellow Democrats with a video showing her in the ring and landing solid kicks to a large
Mr. Gay Europe contenders defy protesters in Poland A 30-year-old German man has been crowned Mr. Gay Europe during a ceremony in conservative Poland. The final of this year’s edition of Mr. Gay Europe took place Aug. 11 in the western city of Poznan in Poland, a conservative and devout Catholic country where many do not accept homosexuality. “I hope this will help us in our fight for the same rights as those enjoyed in the rest of Europe,” event organizer Pawel Zabilski said. Enrique Doleschy, the 30-year-old German who beat six other finalists to win the title, said the event was necessary as long as gay individuals continue to be disrespected and unable to be themselves. “As long as there’s one person feeling like this, we need competitions like this to bring out the best in people and to force them, to drive them, to be better for each other,” he said. A gay Pride parade was held earlier in the day to coincide with the event and notably drew a couple-hundred protesters. Same-sex couples cannot marry or adopt children in Poland, which is one of Europe’s most devout countries and where the Church continues to play a key social punching bag. That proved a compelling story for many Democratic voters in a competitive Kansas congressional race. “In a lot of ways, my candidacy and my campaign is just another extension of the nontraditional path that I have in my life,” she said in an interview before the primary. “What people are seeing is that the traditional way that politics has been done is just not working for so many people.” Davids, from Kansas City, Kansas, is endorsed by EMILY’s List, which works to elect women who support abortion rights. She’s called for treating gun violence as a public health crisis and supports expanding Medicaid’s health coverage for more Americans. She’s critical of the tax cuts championed by President Donald Trump. But her closest primary opponent, Kansas City labor attorney Brent Welder, picked up the endorsed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the patriarch of the Democratic Socialist movement. Sanders campaigned for Welder with New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, its rising star. Davids is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, of Wisconsin. Her mother served more than 20 years in the Army before working for the U.S. Postal Service. Davids spent eight years working her way through college and law school. She also was fighting competitively: Online sites devoted to mixed marital arts say she compiled a 1-1 record in professional bouts and a 5-1 record in amateur contests, from 2006-14.
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role in shaping attitudes. Seventy percent of Poles thought homosexual relations were unacceptable, according to a 2014 opinion poll from the CBOS institute.
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Ex-Uruguay diplomat detained for killing gay-activist neighbor
An arsonist attacked a Lithuania LGBT rights group’s office Aug. 10. Police in Vilnius are investigating after the Lithuania Gay League’s (LGL) office door was set aflame. The arsonist used an unknown flammable substance to set the exterior door and blinds on fire. A taxi driver noticed the flames while driving by. He used a portable fire extinguisher before emergency services arrived. LGL communications coordinator Egl Kuktorait said she walked into the office and noticed the blackened door. “We hope police will recognize that this is obviously a hate crime,” she said. “We have rainbow flags on our windows. We have a rainbow crosswalk by our office. It definitely wasn’t random. It happened at 4 a.m. when there’s not a lot of people in the street. It’s very strange for me because it’s 2018 already.” She said it’s important police treat it
A former Uruguayan diplomat has been sent to a secure psychiatric facility for killing his London neighbor after a long-running dispute. Enrique Facelli, who spent 18 years as cultural attache at Uruguay’s London embassy, was charged with the murder of Julian Aubrey, who lived in the same apartment building. Prosecutors say Facelli stabbed the 55-year-old Aubrey 22 times in October 2017 after suffering delusions that his neighbor, a respected gay-rights campaigner, was a devil worshipper who wanted to kill him. Two psychiatric reports found that 49-year-old Facelli was suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. Facelli denied murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter. At London’s Central Criminal Court on Aug. 7, Judge Anthony Leonard sentenced Facelli to an indefinite period of detention in a hospital. n
Oregon mom, son drop lawsuit over transgender bathroom use
McDuffie’s posts on Twitter date back to 2016-17. Myers said the “out of line” posts wouldn’t be tolerated. McDuffie admitted to making the posts, calling them a mistake. Another department employee was punished last year for mocking the death of a woman killed at a white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. That officer, Morris Rinehardt, was suspended without pay for eight days.
The Oregonian reports an Oregon woman and her son have dropped a lawsuit that sought to mandate that students use bathrooms matching their gender at birth. The lawsuit was filed in May against the Sutherlin School District in southwestern Oregon. The mother argued that her son, identified as “T.B” in the lawsuit, was embarrassed when a transgender student walked into the boys’ bathroom while he was using a urinal. Attorney Ray Hacke said his clients dropped the lawsuit because recent court decisions in similar cases haven’t gone their way, and the district had agreed to improve privacy in the school bathrooms, including placing walls around urinals and showers.
Police recruit fired over inappropriate social-media posts WTVQ reports a police recruit in Kentucky has been fired over social-media posts that used slurs to refer to black and gay people. Shively Police Department spokesman Lt. Col. Josh Myers said Trenton McDuffie’s employment ended Aug. 8. Myers said McDuffie had been at the police academy since July and was employed by the Louisville suburb on a probationary status.
Ruby Rose cast as lesbian superhero Batwoman for The CW ABC News reports Ruby Rose is making history with her latest role as Batwoman, the first openly gay superhero to headline a TV series. Batwoman will be introduced in a December crossover event between the network’s other DC Comics shows, “Arrow,” “The Flash” and “Supergirl.” A stand-alone series about Batwoman, whose real name is Kate Kane, is in development for the 2019-20 TV season. Kane is described as a highly trained street fighter with a passion for social justice and a flair for speaking her mind. Rose posted Aug. 7 on Instagram that she’s “thrilled and honored” and “an emotional wreck’’ over the news. As a young gay person, she said, she never felt represented on TV. Rose gained stardom when she was cast in season three of Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black.” n
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More church abuses This week, the report from the grand jury tasked with investigating allegations of sexual abuse at six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses was released, detailing the wreckage wrought by more than 300 predators over a period of decades. As always, it’s not just the crime but the cover up, once again by church officials. The two-year investigation identified more than 1,000 victims of clergy in Scranton, Allentown, Erie, Greensburg, Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, but the report concluded that the actual number of children is “in the thousands.” State Attorney General Josh Shapiro held a press conference Tuesday, surrounded by a dozen of the abuse survivors, to announce he would fight for full transparency to ensure the names of all the accused priests and clergy be released. Knowing what was coming, the Harrisburg diocese earlier this month released the names of 72 clergy members accused of sexually abusing children. That’s just one diocese. Out of 301 priests, only two have been charged. That’s because of the statute of limitations, the lack of clarity around a duty to report abuse and the nature of confidentiality agreements, all things Shapiro called on the state legislature to amend. The 884-page report comes days after the Department of Labor’s memo instructing the government not to deny federal contracts to faith-based organizations, even if they discriminate. In the enforcement of nondiscrimination laws, the department is now required to “proceed in a manner neutral toward and tolerant of … religious beliefs.” This appears to directly contradict federal law, which prohibits discrimination based on a number of categories (gender identity and sexual orientation not among them). This new policy will likely be challenged in court, but it is yet another example of the influence religious organizations — the Catholic Church in particular — exercise in the name of perpetrating and covering up decades of child abuse, avoiding taxes, taking federal, state and, where available, city funding, all while now being allowed to discriminate against anyone they wish. n
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They say if you don’t vote, you can’t It also doesn’t help that Democrats have complain. This is actually not true. You can often ignored this issue, taking for granted complain all you want. Especially if you’re that a large swath of their supporters often someone who has been blocked from vothave to jump through extra hoops to get ing. And in the U.S., we block a whole lot to the polls. The more hoops a person has of people from voting. It’s supposed to be to jump through, the less likely they are to a super-important right, but it’s often easier vote. And it’s not because they’re lazy. It’s to buy a gun than it is to vote. because they’re tired. Around every election, especially presAnd if you have never found voting to idential ones, we hear about voter-roll be a challenge at all, if you’ve always been purges on the news. Often, these purges are able to breeze in and out of your polling performed in Republican-controlled states place to use shiny new voting equipment, and the people purged just happen to be — never worrying about whether or not you oh gosh, wouldn’t you know it — people had the proper ID or that your name might in heavily Democratic areas. When these be crossed off the list, using your own relipeople show up to vote, not knowing that able transportation while on your lunch their name has been thrown off the list, break from your job that gives its employthey can’t. ees time off to vote, congratulations. Please It is a matter of record that Republicans note your privilege and keep it in mind do not like it when people vote, especially when you judge other people for not voting. when it’s brown and black people voting. And be very skeptical of anyone who They holler and cry about “voting integsays that the problem with elections in this rity,” claiming that country is voter fraud, because that is simonerous voter-ID Trump may say that ply not true. Trump laws are the only way three-million “illegals” may say that 3-milto protect this cherlion “illegals” voted ished institution. And voted in the 2016 electhe 2016 election, yet, they also work tion, thereby denying him in thereby denying him behind the scenes to make it as hard as the popular vote, but there the popular vote, but is absolutely no possible, or at least is absolutely no evidence there evidence of that. Not stand in the way of of that. Not to mention to mention the fact making it easy. it would have Remember way the fact that it would have that required a conspiracy back in 2000? The among election offihanging-chad fiasco? required a conspiracy cials on an epic scale. Lawmakers declared among election officials But then, of course, that we needed better on an epic scale. But then, Trump is a big fan of laws about voting! conspiracies. So the Help America of course, Trump is a big If you don’t vote, Vote Act was passed go ahead and comin 2002. And it solved fan of conspiracies. plain all you want. all of our problems. But chances are, you’ll have a lot less to Just kidding. HAVA established some complain about if you are part of the prostandards for elections and created the Election Assistance Commission. It also got cess. n rid of punch-card ballots. However, all the HAVAs in the world can’t help when one of D’Anne Witkowski is a poet, writer and comedian living in Michigan with her wife and son. She has been the major parties is actively hostile toward writing about LGBT politics for over a decade. Follow voting rights (and welcomed interference her on Twitter @MamaDWitkowski. from Russia into our elections to boot).
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Viral basics Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D., is director of the Division of AIDS (DAIDS) at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He oversees a staff of more than 150 federal employees and a global HIV-research portfolio of more than $1 billion. Dieffenbach is responsible for managing DAIDS programs, which include basic laboratory research and clinical trials to develop therapies to treat HIV and related infections and diseases, as well as to develop vaccines, microbicides and other HIV-prevention strategies. He has restructured the DAIDSsupported clinical-trials research network and has fostered collaboration across agencies and sectors. Dieffenbach became DAIDS director in 2008. Previously, he was director of the DAIDS Basic Sciences Program since 1996. He joined DAIDS in 1992 as chief of the preclinical therapeutics group. Tell us about the role of DAIDS and its scientific programs. Think about the unanswered questions about HIV today. What does it take to get a safe, effective and durable HIV vaccine? What does it take to cure HIV infection? What is it we don’t understand about why there is residual-immune activation after effective HIV therapy? Those are the types of primary questions that DAIDS is supporting research to address domestically and internationally. The Basic Sciences Program is somewhat self-explanatory. What does HIV do, and how
does it do it? How does the virus hijack the human immune system? What is happening with HIV at the atomic, macromolecular, cellular and tissue level, as well as the population level? We’re looking at what is happening at a mechanistic level as HIV interacts with the body.
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Street Talk Is Pennsylvania ready for the legalization of recreational marijuana? “No, we have too many other pressing issues that need to be addressed first. We don’t have enough knowledge Denise Payne about marrehab specialist ijuana and Germantown its possible harmful effects. I think marijuana has its downside. Until I’m shown otherwise, I oppose legalization.”
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What are the remaining questions to be answered for a cure and, in the meantime, for improved treatments? Why can we cure hepatitis C virus (HCV) today? The primary reason is that HCV does not integrate into the host genome, ever. The hep-C drugs are effective in stopping replication. The difference with HIV is that essentially it becomes a gene in the human genome. That is the source of all things related to latency (where the virus lies dormant) and what we still need to understand. How does HIV actually lie dormant, what does it take to reactivate it and what does it take to prevent the virus from causing disease if you stop therapy? As for treatment, it’s so much safer and easier than it was two decades ago. We’ve gone from a high pill burden to one pill a day. Now it’s a matter of improving adherence. Can we evolve therapy so there are long-acting formulations? Can we have combinations of drugs and monoclonal antibodies that continue to improve safety?
Untransmittable” campaign, or U=U, has promoted this message. Why were you an early supporter of U=U? As more data over the years came out, it became clear that being undetectable meant the risk of transmission was negligible to a point where it was not worth worrying about. Bruce Richman, founder of Prevention Access Campaign, which promotes the U=U message, understood the importance of these data. He believed that people could help fight HIV stigma with this information. They could live without this cloud over them that they’re putting people at risk for falling in love. To me, U=U is a strong way of helping the community to come together. It also helps us move down the road toward a point of equality for people who are HIV-positive. There are people who continue to say that statistically there still could be some transmissions, but even these individuals acknowledge that we have observed no transmissions from those who are undetectable.
In addition to keeping people healthy, an undetectable viral load means having effectively no risk of transmitting the virus. Since 2016, the “Undetectable =
Where are we with vaccine research? When we started with this research, we had a series of vaccines with no efficacy and even a vaccine that actually caused harm. Then the
RV144 trial, which was 31-percent efficacious, made us all ask if we could get to 50 percent. That rate in statistical modeling has the potential for profound impact on the epidemic when combined with things like adult medical-male circumcision, plus treatment as prevention and rollout of pre-exposure prophylaxis. The result is that we now have, for the first time in the history of HIV-vaccine research, two test-of-concept trials going on in sub-Saharan Africa. One is a trial called HVTN 702, which is a modified version of the RV144 trial that showed such promise. The other is called the Imbokodo trial. We’ll see if either of them hits the 50-70 percent efficacy that we’re seeking. If we got a vaccine that had at least 50-percent efficacy, we could then build a better mousetrap, so to speak. To me, this is an exciting time. n Oriol R. Gutierrez Jr. is the editor-in-chief of POZ magazine. Find him on Twitter @oriolgutierrez. This column is a project of Plus, Positively Aware, POZ, The Body and Q Syndicate, the LGBT wire service. Visit their websites — http://hivplusmag.com, http://positivelyaware.com, http://poz.com and http://thebody.com — for the latest updates on HIV/AIDS.
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The growing epidemic of elder abuse Abuse against older adults is a public-health issue that impacts seniors, their families and communities across the United States. The size of the older-adult population is expected to nearly double in the next 30 years. These demographic shifts mean that the number of people potentially affected by elder abuse is ever-growing. A 2015 research report in the New England Journal of Medicine concluded that roughly 10 percent of older adults had been victims of elder abuse. David Elder abuse takes many forms, including physical abuse, psychological or verbal abuse, sexual abuse, financial exploitation and neglect. Physical abuse and neglect can lead to severe health issues and earlier mortality. Psychological and emotional abuse can cause depression and worsen isolation. Financial abuse causes economic losses for older adults and their families. Yet, according to the National Center on
Elder Abuse, only one in 14 incidents of abuse perpetrated against seniors ever gets reported. The perpetrators are often someone upon whom the victim is dependent — such as a family member or caregiver. The victim may not have the means of reporting their mistreatment or may face retribution for doing so. Others refrain from reporting their abuse out of shame or embarrassment. When the abuse is perpetrated by a family member, some victims may forgo reporting the incident, as they don’t want a family member to Griffith get in trouble. LGBT older adults may face the added barrier to reporting their abuse if it relates to their sexual orientation or gender identity. In a national survey of LGBT older adults published by the Movement Advancement Project, 8.3 percent of respondents reported being abused and neglected by a caretaker because of homophobia or transphobia. In cases where reporting this abuse would “out” the individual as LGBT,
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some victims may choose to remain silent. Additionally, LGBT people who have experienced mistreatment by law enforcement will understandably be hesitant to call the police. LGBT people face increased risk of elder abuse given that they experience high rates of isolation. Low social support has been found to significantly increase the risk of virtually all forms of elder mistreatment. Abuse perpetrated against individuals who are isolated may go unnoticed if the victim does not have other people with whom they regularly interact. If the perpetrator is the senior’s only source of support, the victim will be unlikely or unable to report the abuse. Dementia, or other forms of cognitive decline, is also a strong risk factor for abuse. A 2009 report from the American Society on Aging suggested that close to 50 percent of people with dementia experience some form of abuse. They are also less likely to report the abuse, due to confusion about the events that took place or of how to file a report. There still exists a significant lack of
research on elder abuse. Elder abuse within LGBT communities is a particular area needing much greater research. Further programming that educates communities about identifying and reporting elder abuse is another important aspect of preventing abuse and connecting victims with the resources they need. In Philadelphia, Older Adult Protective Services operates through the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) and can be contacted through the PCA Helpline at 215-765-9040. Older adults outside Philadelphia should report elder abuse through their county’s Area Agency on Aging (to find your Area Agency on Aging, visit the Elder Care Locator at www.eldercare.acl.gov or call 800-6771116). All Area Agencies on Aging receive reports 24 hours a day and are responsible to investigate them within 72 hours. Reports can be filed anonymously, and the law protects those reporting from retaliation or liability. n David Griffith is the director of programs and outreach for the LGBT Elder Initiative. To learn more about the initiative and upcoming programs for LGBT older adults, visit www.lgbtelderinitiative.org.
A vision of what’s possible in LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms As the hot days of August try Instruction in the Elementary to tempt us into laziness, another Classroom” (Teachers College influence pulls at many of us Press and GLSEN), by Caitlin parents — the increasingly loud L. Ryan and Jill M. Hermannvoice in the back of our heads Wilmarth, is a slim (160-page) that says school will volume to help elesoon be starting for mentary-school our children. Can we English language-arts fit in one more trip to (ELA) teachers introthe beach or to visit duce or deepen classfamily? What’s on the room discussions school-supply list? around LGBTQ idenFor LGBTQ partity and gender. It’s ents, back-to-school full of practical tips time can also bring and ideas backed by worries about whether curricular standards our children will have and classroom expetheir family structure rience — but even if and identities supyou’re not a teacher ported. Will the school Dana Rudolph (or teach another subject), it may provide and classroom climate be safe and welcoming? Will they much food for thought. Its brilliance lies in the way it offers find a community of supportive peers? Will the curriculum reflect tools for teachers who may have varying degrees of experience or families like theirs? For those comfort in addressing LGBTQ seeking advice and assistance, I’ve updated my annual annotated topics, and in showing how classrooms could become more inclulist of LGBTQ Back-to-School sive, even in schools resistant to Resources at mombian.com. such topics. I want to focus here, however, Ryan and Hermann-Wilmarth on my favorite new educational resource of the year, for it offers a each have years of experience teaching in elementary classwonderful model of what is posrooms, although they now hold sible in LGBTQ-inclusive edupositions in higher education. cation. “Reading the Rainbow: They draw not only from their LGBTQ-Inclusive Literacy
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own experiences, but also from those of three other teachers whose classrooms they have studied (and, in some instances, co-taught in) for several years. Ryan and Hermann-Wilmarth both identify as queer, lesbian, cisgender and white, as does one of the other teachers; the remaining two are white, straight cisgender allies. I wish this panel had been more diverse — teachers of color and transgender teachers would have added important perspectives — but they nevertheless provide a starting point as well as allies’ ways of looking at the intersections of gender, race and other identities. By including LGBTQ people and ideas in classrooms, the authors explain, teachers provide students with “new windows and mirrors of the world around them.” The authors offer many examples of how their panel of teachers helped students use inclusive texts to better understand their own lives or the lives and situations of others. Along the way, students practiced language-arts skills, such as learning multiple meanings of words, using more nuanced vocabulary and crafting arguments. At the same time, the authors
caution that a single LGBTQinclusive book cannot show the full range of LGBTQ lives — and indeed, the number of such books for elementary-age readers is still limited, particularly in showing LGBTQ people who are not white, suburban or partnered. For this reason, and because some teachers may still find it challenging to overcome (unwarranted) parental and administrative concerns about LGBTQ-inclusive books, Ryan and Hermann-Wilmarth also explore how to “queer,” i.e., “mess up and complicate,” traditional categories related to bodies, gender, sexual orientation and love, even when not explicitly reading or talking about LGBTQ people. Classrooms can explore ideas of gender expectations, for example, even in books without LGBTQ characters. As a supplemental approach, it may begin to shift students’ understanding, especially in places where discussion of clearly LGBTQ characters may not yet be possible. Ryan and Hermann-Wilmarth also offer resources for finding support and recommend that teachers familiarize themselves with their states’ nondiscrim-
ination and safe-schools laws (or lack thereof). Laws aside, they also suggest various ways of talking with parents and administrators about introducing LGBTQ-inclusive books or topics. And they list a small selection of picture and chapter books, media resources and lesson plans. Reading the Rainbow is a nuanced, practical volume, showing how a truly LGBTQinclusive classroom, benefitting children of all identities, means more than just reading a book or two. For us parents, it may even offer a model to guide the ways we read and discuss books with our children at home. I chose to highlight this book because we deserve something positive to start the school year. I don’t want to minimize the challenges we may face, individually and collectively, but I hope we take heart, knowing that such resources — and teachers like the authors and their colleagues — exist. n Dana Rudolph is the founder and publisher of Mombian (mombian.com), a GLAAD Media Award-winning blog and resource directory for LGBTQ parents.
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the Sixth District, which covers Center City east of Broad Street. Berry was based in the Ninth District, which covers Center City west of Broad Street, which means supervisors in each district would typically only see documentation provided by the officers under their purview. Berry believed he was in charge of the investigation and took the lead by writing a report about the Morris incident. At the hospital, Berry concluded that Morris was a slip-and-fall victim though it remains unclear why and wrote a report documenting Morris as a “hospital case,” police vernacular for someone who requires a hospital visit but isn’t necessarily a crime victim. Berry’s report in conjunction with his patrol log designate the Morris incident as beginning at 3:25 a.m. — when Berry documented he first spotted Morris exiting Skala’s vehicle, which had crossed into the Ninth District on the 1400 block of Walnut Street. Berry wrote that he circled Rittenhouse Square, and returned at 3:35 a.m., when he saw Morris at 16th and Walnut streets, also in Berry’s patrol sector. Berry’s report and log were submitted to his Ninth-District supervisor. Novak didn’t write a stand-alone police report, but he and Skala wrote entries in their respective patrol logs designating the Morris incident as beginning at 3:10 a.m. — when they were initially dispatched to investigate her at Key West in the Sixth District. Novak wrote in his log that he spent five minutes on a “hospital case,” from 3:10-3:15 a.m. Skala wrote that she spent 16 minutes on a hospital case, from 3:10-3:26 a.m. A later log entry written by Novak documents the hospital case as originating in the Ninth District, and codes it as such. So what the Sixth-District supervisor saw in Skala and Novak’s logs was that a bystander first called 911 on behalf of Morris, who was
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competing. It meant too much to me. I didn’t want to let myself down, and I didn’t want to let my supporters down. My friends travelled with me to the Games to cheer me on, and that support and motivation were all that I needed to push through.” Caitlin Daley, president of the Falcons’ soccer team, said she was proud of the thirdplace victory of the women’s team. “This was the first major tournament we have traveled to. In the past, the club has sent men’s teams to many tournaments, and the women to more local ones, but this was the first in recent history of such a large scale,” she said. Daley noted that, aside from the bronzemedal win, the sense of community was the biggest takeaway from the competition. “The spirit of community and fair play is the biggest thing I’ll take away from the tournament. Teams took the time to trade pins or souvenirs, take photos or do a thank-you cheer for the other teams.” n
at that moment in the Sixth District, but wasn’t spotted by police until she was in the Ninth District — which isn’t true. Morris was picked up by police at Key West — in the Sixth District. In the log entry, Novak closed the case with the notation “Further,” police parlance indicating that he followed up on the incident. For that log entry, Novak wrote a district-control number (an internal police tracking number) for the incident that’s based in the Ninth District, thus erasing the origin of the incident in the Sixth District where Morris was first picked up. Perhaps more importantly, what emerges from the available documentation submitted by all three officers to their respective
Perhaps more importantly, what emerges from the available documentation submitted by all three officers to their respective supervisors is a failure to mention that the courtesy ride even happened. supervisors is a failure to mention that the courtesy ride even happened. As a result, all of the paperwork the three officers produced depicted Morris simply as a hospital case. But during the period from 3:13-3:25 a.m., Morris was in a police vehicle, not in an ambulance being taken to the hospital, as a hospital case would require. Advocates for Morris are asking: Why cover up the courtesy ride? It was only 12 minutes after Morris entered Skala’s vehicle that she was found bleeding from the head on the street, according to 911 records. PAGE 17 The time the three
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ager of supplier diversity at PepsiCo, has attended 10 NGLCC conferences and said he was excited to see familiar faces and learn new things. “The conference does a great job with keeping things fresh every year,” Tieu said. Connie Stacey, founder of the Canadian-based eco-friendly company Growing Greener Innovations, asked local attendees for recommendations on where to get the best Philly cheesesteak. “Whenever I travel to a new place, I like to ask the locals where to find its best staple food. It’s a great way to break the ice,” she said. Stacey ended up at Max’s Steaks. The Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus, a jazz ensemble, provided entertainment, and brief welcoming remarks rounded out the evening. n
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Questionable Morris Log Entry: Did Officer Write “Report” or “Respondent”? Philadelphia police haven’t clarified whether Officer Kenneth Novak wrote “respondent” or “report” in his patrol-activity log for the Nizah Morris incident. The ambiguity gives Novak a fallback option in case he’s called out over when and where the Morris incident actually began.
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officers say the Morris incident began is also critical. Berry’s report and patrol-log entry designating 3:25 a.m. as the incident’s starting point whitewash the fact that it actually began at 3:10 a.m., when Novak and Skala, patrolling the areas in separate cars in the Sixth District, were dispatched to Key West. Skala, arriving first, gave the courtesy ride at 3:13 a.m. The courtesy ride presents an obstacle in the three officers’ documented accounts of Morris as a hospital case only. If she were a hospital case from the start of the incident, she would have been picked up by medics and transported to a hospital rather than getting in a police vehicle. Novak’s log entry raises another concern. On the surface, it ostensibly confirms that Novak realized Berry was going to write a report. Novak’s log entry appears in unclear handwriting to state: “Report previously taken.” If Novak in fact wrote “report,” then he would have been aware that Berry was writing a report and was in charge of the investigation. But in that scenario, Novak couldn’t justify the 3:10 starting time for the hospital case documented in his patrol log, because it would conflict with Berry’s 3:25 starting time. However, if Novak had written, “Respondent was previously taken,” meaning taken to a hospital, Novak could have subsequently explained to investigators that he believed he was in charge of the investigation, that he didn’t know about Berry’s 3:25 a.m. starting time for the “hospital case,” and that he and Skala rightfully designated the starting time as 3:10 a.m. PGN includes the log entry as a graphic to demonstrate the ambiguity in the notation. Police referred questions about Novak’s log entry to a spokesperson for Mayor Jim Kenney, who had no comment as of presstime. Novak couldn’t be reached for comment. To date, no records have been released indicating that investigators ever questioned Novak about his log entry. Advocates for Morris continue to push for the release of all records relating to the case at the D.A.’s Office. In April, trans attorney Julie Chovanes filed a state Right-to-Know Law request for those records. As of presstime, Chovanes’ request remained pending. n
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ADAM (FORREST GOODLUCK), JANE (SASHA LANE) AND CAMERON (CHLOË GRACE MORETZ) IN “THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST” Photo: FilmRise
The trauma of conversion therapy at heart of sensitive new film By Gary M. Kramer PGN Contributor Bisexual filmmaker Desiree Akhavan’s sophomore feature, “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” is a sensitive adaptation of Emily M. Danforth’s celebrated novel about the title character (Chloë Grace Moretz) being sent to a gay conversion-therapy program called God’s Promise. After Cameron is caught making out with Coley (Quinn Shephard), her best friend from Bible study, her aunt Ruth (Kerry Butler) sends her away to “straighten” her out. It is at God’s Promise where Cameron meets Reverend Rick (John Gallagher Jr.), an ex-gay instructor, and Dr. Lydia Marsh (Jennifer Ehle), the director of the program. Cameron also meets her roommate, Erin (Emily Skeggs), who hopes to help her down a righteous path, and two other “disciples,” as the administration calls the campers, Jane Fonda (openly gay Sasha Lane) and Adam (Forrest Goodluck), who are disillusioned by the “treatment” and befriend her. As she assimilates to life at God’s Promise, Cameron reflects more on what the people who run the religious-conversion camp call her “gender confusion.” The film generates its dramatic tension out of Cameron’s efforts to be true to her desires — she fantasizes about kissing Bethany (Marin Ireland), one of her instructors — and survive the camp. That means doing an exercise in which she has to identify all the things that make her “queer” as a way to identify behavior that needs correcting. The director, who co-wrote the script with Cecilia Frugiuele, wanted to make the film after reading the book. “I loved it,” she
said about the novel in a recent phone interview, “I gave it to my girlfriend at the time, and she loved it, and said it would make a fantastic movie. I wrote a fan letter to the author. I thought it would make a great film, but I felt it was something I had to earn. I had not made my first film [2014’s ‘Appropriate Behavior’] yet.” The screen adaptation focuses on the last 200 pages of the nearly 500-page novel, a decision Akhavan deliberately made. “I wanted to find the kernel of excitement that made us want to adapt it,” she recalled. “What aspect did we want to translate? It was the tone — the balance of funny and witty and horrifying. So every change [from page to screen] was in service of maintaining that tone.” The film, like the character of Adam, can sound sarcastic even while being genuine. “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” includes dream sequences, fantasy sequences, painful moments and exhilarating ones, such as Cameron belting out “What’s Up” by 4 Non Blondes in the kitchen of God’s Promise. (The film is set in 1993.)
There is also a very painful episode involving a disciple who experiences frustration and then later acts on it in a violent way. The physical damage resulting from this incident compounds the emotional abuse these teens experience at the camp. Akhavan deftly captures what life is like for the film’s teenagers. “In an honest portrayal of a teen, the most horrible things can be funny, and funny things can be sad. That’s my view of the world. I wanted to present the facts and have it feel the way high school felt to me — that weird dance of tragedy and comedy, horror and absurdity. The circumstances are so ridiculous, they strike you as funny.” The title character wrestles with an internal conflict; She understands there is nothing “wrong” with her same-sex desires, but still questions those feelings. The director, who was raised in a traditional Iranian family, said she closely identifies with Cameron. “I related to her feeling that she has a good sense [of self], and yet she is doubting herself. All signs pointed to her being in the wrong. I wanted to paint this character where you’re on her side, but not sure if
she’s going to be protected from this place. Everyone around her is feeding her rhetoric that might seep into her. It makes her doubt everything she believes in.” “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” benefits from the authenticity of the characters and the dilemmas they face — even the adults, such as Reverend Rick and Dr. Marsh. Akhavan humanizes these characters, presenting the “converted” Rick as someone “living the [ex-gay] lifestyle,” while Lydia is devoted to the youth she counsels. These “villains” are not presented as caricatures, but the film does prompt viewers to consider what motivates the beliefs of “re-educators,” as well as parents who send their LGBT teens to gay-conversion therapy. Viewers “should feel sympathy for Rick and Lydia — and identify with a perspective you never thought you could,” Akhavan said, adding she wants viewers to draw their own conclusions. The filmmaker researched programs like the fictional God’s Promise and met with survivors of gay-conversion therapy, including Mathew Shurka from the #BornPerfect movement. “He is an advocate who is trying to make gay-conversion therapy illegal,” Akhavan said. It was not until she started adapting the book that she saw it as “a metaphor for any experience where kids — gay or straight —were told they were diseased. As time passed, while we developed the film, it was weirdly relevant. The election happened, and it was horrifying to me that it was becoming a reality.” n “The Miseducation of Cameron Post” opens Aug. 17 at the Landmark Ritz Five, 3904, 214 Walnut St.
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Out actor talks the ‘crazy rich’ experience By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com Out Filipino-American actor Nico Santos steals quite a few scenes playing the “rainbow sheep” of a rich and powerful family in new release “Crazy Rich Asians.” As an outcast in the prestigious brood, he functions as a social fixer for the family when needed while also giving a sympathetic ear to Rachel Wu, the heroine of the film, as she navigates the treacherous and venomous elite world into which she’s suddenly thrust. We caught up with Santos to talk about the potentially groundbreaking film and what it means for Asian representation in Hollywood. PGN: Do you think a movie like this
will create more opportunities for Asian actors and help put a stop to Hollywood white-washing casts for settings and stories about Asians? NS: The wonderful thing about our film is everybody is Asian. It levels out the playing field. We were able to portray really complex, well-rounded characters. We can portray Asians as a people who experience a wide range of things; wanting success, wanting love, acting as villains, as heroes — and we’re not just the sidekicks or a punch line. Nobody is doing kung fu or fleeing a village in this movie. We’re just portraying real three-dimensional characters. I hope it will open the floodgates for us to be able to tell more stories like that.
sang karaoke every night. It felt like a paid vacation.
PGN: This movie looked like it was a blast to make. Was that the case? NS: It was so much fun. It was like being paid to go on vacation. I was in Singapore and Malaysia for six weeks. All the cast members really clicked when we got there. We were hanging out during our downtime. I felt like I was hanging out with all my cool cousins who I haven’t seen in a while. We ate dim sum every day and
PGN: During the auditions for this film, was it comforting to know that a lot of your peers in the Asian acting community were probably going to make it into the film? NS: In L.A., all my Asian actor friends were like, “Have you read for this yet?” The thing about being a person of color and queer in Hollywood is that they want you to believe that there is only room for one of you. We shattered that myth.
PGN: Do you feel like there was enough LGBTQ representation in this film? NS: I would love for there to be more LGBTQ Asian characters. The reality is there isn’t. I feel very privileged and honored that I get to portray not only Oliver in “Crazy Rich Asians” but my character in “Superstore” is a gay Filipino immigrant. You don’t see queer Asian characters that often and you don’t see well-rounded queer Asian characters often. In the book, Oliver is really the only queer character.
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wedding while watching this film because they are going to instantly hate their ceremony after seeing this. NS: Absolutely. I’m sure we’re going to give a lot of brides out there a complex. It is a fun movie and this great escapist fantasy that is a peek into these people’s lives. When I was preparing for this movie, I was scratching my head about how I was going to relate to these characters. I drew on my experience of working in high-end retail. These were the clients that I helped. I always wondered, Who are these people spending $10,000 on a handbag? They’re Crazy Rich Asians. These were the people I was helping. n
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Stephanie Czapla: Animated IRL I had a few relatives visit me last week and when the conversation turned to gay stuff — I don’t even recall what — one of my cousins laughed and said, “Can you ask the community to stop adding letters to the alphabet? It’s hard to keep up!” I hear ya, cuz. LGBTQAAI — it can be daunting for even a seasoned member of the community. And this next generation isn’t going to make it any easier; a large number of them don’t care to use any identifiers, and the rest have identities that sound like a Starbucks order to an old head like me. This week’s Portraits, Steph Czapla, is one of those aforementioned young people forging a brave new world. The talented Ms. C. is a new graduate of the Moore College of Art. I’ve had the pleasure of working with Czapla through The Women’s Film Festival, where she is known for her work ethic and unique sense of style. I spoke to her about the upcoming film screening of “Animation Nation” and the gallery event being held by TWFF as part of the Fringe Festival. PGN: How do you pronounce your last name and what’s the origin? SC: Chop-la and it’s from Poland. I think it translates to heron, like the bird. PGN: Hometown? SC: I was born and raised in Miami. I came to Philadelphia to go to college in 2013. PGN: Name a turning point in your life that makes you stop and reflect. SC: My parents separated when I was about 5. I was hustled and bustled around by my mother for a year and it made me very cautious and anxious. She was doing drugs with her boyfriend, the one she cheated on my dad with, yet she was the one given custody of me and my brother. That was a time when the cops would automatically side with the mom. It didn’t help that she made up some stories about my dad — that he’d been berating her and inciting violence. That was the ’90s when a lot of people held the belief that the moms were the natural caretakers, so I was stuck in an awful place for over a year. Fortunately, my dad fought tooth and nail for us and finally won. I couldn’t thank him enough for it. As a result, first grade was the first time I felt some real stability. [Laughing] It was all uphill from there. PGN: Go Dad! SC: Yeah, he’s always been an advocate for and supporter of me. We moved into a really pretty house in the suburbs of West Miami and that’s where I lived until I came here. PGN: Ever play any sports? SC: I really got into fitness. As a senior, I went on this weight-loss journey and it
was pretty unhealthy. I lost 16 pounds in 37 days. I became obsessive about working out and kept to a strict super-low calorie count. That’s when my eating disorders started to manifest. I’d be on a “thinspiration” routine, preoccupied with having a flat stomach. But the only sport I can think of that I liked was the one time a year you played dodgeball in gym and got the chance to knock out that bitch in your class. I became a gym rat in college and really started getting into yoga and a little kickboxing. PGN: So you have one sibling? SC: Yeah, Christopher, he’s the light of my life. He just turned 21 in April. PGN: What do the folks do? SC: My dad worked in real estate and my stepmother studied computer science in the Philippines and does sales work here. PGN: Are you in touch with your birth mom? SC: No.
part of the Fringe Festival and it’s going to be a program of short animated films. In addition, we will have a gallery featuring a variety of artists. I am the visual-art curator for that portion of the event, and it’s going to be exciting. I’ve been speaking to illustrators, painters and other quirky artists who will uphold the theme of the night. We want to give an immersive experience. We’re also collaborating with the nonprofit “Creating United Empowerment,” which is an organization in Philadelphia that aims to promote and sell work by women artists. A portion of the proceeds from the art sales will go to them. I hope people get their tickets fast, because I think it’s going to sell out. PGN: What’s important about having a women’s film festival? SC: It’s very important. A lot of women don’t get represented in the media and when they do, it’s inadequate. I’ve had people say, “But there are a lot of women in media!” and I challenge them with, “What are their names? How many female direc-
PGN: Answer this: I am known for … SC: I’m a great dresser, if I do say so myself. My friends know me as a very extroverted person. I like to be out and about: theme nights and emo nights, any kind of dance parties. I’ve been known to show up to events in a banana suit. I’m always on a mad hustle, organizing events like my Drink n Draw series at Fiume in West Philly. I help coordinate a poetry open mic that occurs every second Monday at Little Berlin. I write poetry that tackles themes of emotional transcendence, vulnerability, intimacy, relationship constructs and self-love. Trying to work on my occasional fear of intimacy. Some music: I’m part of an avant-bard folkpop duo with my friend B. But mostly I’m known for my artwork. My illustrative work tends to steer towards fantasy, human duality, Miami Art Deco and pop culture. Professionally I’m an illustrator and designer. I really focus on user-experience design and editorial illustration, and I am available for freelance work. Oh, I also consider myself a professional humble bragger! PGN: How did you end up at Moore? SC: I knew I had to get out of Miami. I knew that if I stuck around after high school it would take me years to break free. I applied to a few schools, but Moore gave me the most funding. I didn’t even visit the school, I just accepted the offer and the rest is history. PGN: And now you’re with The Women’s Film festival. What is your role with them? SC: I’m the graphic designer for the festival in March as well as for other events like the “Animation Nation” on Sept. 12. It’s
tors can you name?” Or producers, even actors — not only can they not be named, but often when you have women in the productions, she’s secondary to the main character — used as an accessory or sidekick and it’s a bummer. And that’s not even discussing the lack of real diversity, meaning diversity that’s not there to fill a quota or to plug someone in as a token, but real, organic diversity. I think the film festival does a great job of trying to rectify this by promoting women in films.
PGN: Speaking of diversity, your generation is redefining it in terms of gender and sexual orientation. SC: Yes, I think we’re more all-encompassing and more inclusive in our approach. We’re questioning everything, from societal norms and values, which can perpetuate negative judgments, to accepting all safe expressions — people who are polyamorous or ethically non-monogamous, along with different gender expressions. We’re giving people room to grow and explore and figure out what they want and who they are. I personally identify as cis pansexual. PGN: As someone who’s always been pretty extroverted and edgy, was it easier for you to come out as queer? SC: I grew up in a very conservative household. I wish it had been easier for me to come out to my parents. I was 14 and really scared to tell my dad that I was bi and liked girls. I don’t know if I just caught him in a good mood that night, but he said that he still loved and cared about me, which took a lot of weight off me because I’d heard of kids being ostracized from their families. So they were supportive, but it’s not something that we discuss openly. PGN: So, random question: Would you rather travel to the future or go back in time? SC: Travel to the future. I’m not someone who likes to look back. I’ve spent too much time doing that in the past, brooding over what could have or should have been, but I’ve realized that things happen for a reason. I have this weird thing where I’ll see something in my dreams that is amazingly accurate or I’ll experience intense moments of déjà vu that will confirm to me, yeah, I’m meant to be here. There are things I wish I had done differently, Photo: Suzi Nash but had I not done them, I wouldn’t be who and where I am today. There are rough times in life, but I’m happy to be a part of this thing. PGN: Where can people find you? SC: They can follow me on instagram @stephanieczapla or check out my portfolio at www.stephanieczapla.com. n For tickets or more information about Animation Nation, go to www.fringearts.com/event/animation-nation.
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James Ijames’ Fringe Fest Paradise By A.D. Amorosi PGN Contributor Whether as a playwright, a performer-actor or a producer with the recently late, great Orbiter 3 company, South Philadelphia’s James Ijames seems incapable of making bad decisions or wrong-headed moves. Forget about awards such as an F. Otto Haas for Emerging Artist, two Barrymores for Outstanding Supporting Actor (“Superior Donuts,” “Angels in America”) and one Barrymore for Direction (“The Brothers Size” with Simpatico Theatre Company), to say nothing of a few Pew Fellows. James is an insightful, inventive creative — a proud gay black man whose work seems to insistently blossom anew, even when tackling work he’s essayed in the past or plays that examine the American before-and-after. Take “Kill Move Paradise,” currently opening in preview at the Wilma Theatre for its Sept. 4-23 run as part of the 2018 Philadelphia Fringe Festival, after having had its world premiere with the National Black Theatre in Harlem. Ripped from the headlines of what Ijames calls “the contemporary myth that all lives matter, the expressionistic “Kill Move Paradise” looks at four young AfricanAmerican males’ earthly existences quickly cut short, and a play’s time in which they
must remember how they lived and died — some because they were black like Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland and Sam DuBose. The four characters work within the framework of external narratives and the outward signs of stereotypes placed on them. Rather than be tied down by plots, “Kill” operates on a transcendental plane, a place where “physical and spiritual transformation” takes place, “activated through their healing of one another,” Ijames said. As an artist with a self-proclaimed obsession with “the American experiment” (“how we can use art to expose how imperfect this place is, in an effort to make it more perfect”), a ready preoccupation with “inheritance and legacy… a building of a new kind of legacy” and in Paula Vogel’s words, “to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar,” Ijames brings the ardor of police brutality and a personal, yet existential, disgust with the existing power structure to the proceedings. “It’s personal to me because it’s probably the angriest I’ve ever been in my writing, and it exposes my own anxiety,” he said. “About death, about being black in America. But I guess most of my plays are personal when you get down to it. right?” The subject matter of “Kill Move Paradise” is all around us, he said, whether it’s black men and women being killed by
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law enforcement or trans women being killed or the many other ways marginalized people are victims of systemic racism, patriarchy and misogyny. “The characters have some parallels to real people, but are wholly my invention. In some ways they are versions of me. I wanted the title to be reminiscent of a video-game title, because they invoke both a kind of exhilarating euphoria and a desensitization to violence and brutality.” Everything that he writes and performs must reflect the AfricanAmerican Ijames, the gay Ijames, the male Ijames, even the Philadelphia Ijames. “All of those notions are present in my work. I don’t think I sit down to write and think, How can I expresses every corner of who I am in this scene? That’s strange. I think who you are naturally finds its way into what you make.” Since the play’s original conception and inception, things have changed, some far more dramatic and life-altering than others. Ijames noted that since the first mounting of “Kill Move Paradise,” there is a larger slate of victims; people who have been killed, either by police violence or vigilantes.
“That list has grown since I first wrote the play almost four years ago,” he said. “We have also done some work on the script to make the play stronger. You learn a lot about the play in rehearsal and with new actors and new directors. So it’s a chance to really get the play to a place that feels good.” The newest director, Wilma’s Blanka Ziska, is a true collaborator in bringing this “Kill Move Paradise” to Philadelphia stages. “ I really love working with Blanka and trust her completely. PAGE 30
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Let’s go ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ By Larry Nichols larry@epgn.com If nothing else, “Crazy Rich Asians” is a whole lot of truth in advertising. This romantic comedy-drama with an allAsian cast carries the weight of a lot of good intentions to defy a lot of Hollywood myths. The story centers on Rachel Chu (played by Constance Wu), a young professor in New York who has no idea that her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young (Henry Golding), is heir to one of the wealthiest families in the world. He invites her to his best friend’s wedding in Singapore and it isn’t until they are seated in ultra-posh first class on the plane she realizes that her beau might be rolling in it. Things only get crazier after they land in Singapore, where Rachel quickly finds out, she’s about to attend the wedding of the century. Being on the arm of one of the most eligible bachelors in the world puts her under the scrutiny of the press, Nick’s family and every single woman in the country with designs on him. A few allies materialize to help Rachel make sense of it all — the most entertaining of which are Rachel’s ride-or-die college buddy, Goh Peik Lin (play by Awkwafina), who might as well be an Asian Lady Gaga and steals pretty much every scene she’s in, and Oliver T’sien (Nico Santos), the lone gay character in the film, who is kept on the fringes of his family. Michelle Yeoh brilliantly exudes full venomous iciness as Eleanor Young, Nick’s mother, who has IJAMES from page 28
Her approach to the work both with design and in the room with the actors is exciting and daring. I’ve never really seen anything like it. It’s a true collaboration. She’s an incredible interpreter of plays, and I’m really thrilled that she’s working on mine,” said Ijames. When it comes to the necessary activism in the foundation of “Kill Move Paradise” like shale and sand, Ijames doesn’t picket or protest. He puts his money where his mouth is. “Activism for me is in the daily small acts of radical compassion, empathy and disturbance. How I choose to spend my money and time. The ideas I expose my students to, so their learning isn’t limited but is inclusive and expansive. And I try to write in such a way that provokes change. I’m going to be doing artEquity facilitator training this fall so that I can be a voice of
her own agenda for trying to keep him and Rachel apart. Anyone who has ever seen date movies such as “Pretty Woman,” “The Princess Diaries,” “Coming to America” or “Fifty Shades of Grey” will pretty much predict the dramatic twists and turns here. But there is more than enough exotic visual flair and talent on the screen, as well as a welcome sense of humor and playfulness within the story. Like any movie trying to break new social ground, it walks a precarious line between trying to defy
Theater & Arts Agnes Martin: The Untroubled Mind/Works from the Daniel W. Dietrich II Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art presents paintings and drawings exploring the ideas that shaped Martin’s minimalist art, through Oct. 14, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Beauty and the Beast, Jr. Bristol Riverside Theatre presents the classic musical story performed by kids for kids, Aug. 1718, 120 Radcliffe St., Bristol; 215785-0100
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stereotypes and leaning into those stereotypes. For the most part, the strength of the performances and the cast outshine any concerns about the occasional one-dimensional portrayal of the film’s bad guys. As a side note, any readers in the process of planning a wedding might want to wait until after their nuptials to watch this movie. The wedding scene will make pretty much anything else seem like a trailer-park barbecue by comparison. You’ve been warned. n diversity and inclusion in the region and in our theater community.” The writing that provokes change: No one sets out to purposely create controversy or stir a pot, but knowing what I know about his work in the past and the tone of this play, it is certainly provocative. “I think provocation and controversy are different things. I am certainly interested in provoking people to think, to action, to empathy in all of my plays. I actually don’t think the play is all that controversial. It’s in the same world as like Sartre’s “No Exit” or — and I’m not comparing myself to this writer — Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot.” And of course I’m sensitive to what’s in the world around me and that will find its way into my work. I like to escape too. We can have both. This play has both escapism and difficult provocation for an audience.” n
Biting Wit and Brazen Folly: British Satirical Prints, 1780s–1830s Philadelphia Museum of Art on the appeal of caricature in Georgian England and the ways in which those images teased and provoked audiences, through Aug. 22, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Cirque du Soleil’s VOLTA The new Big Top production by the international acrobatic circusarts performs through Aug. 19 at Greater Philadelphia Expo Center, 100 Station Ave., Oaks; 484754-3976. Design in Revolution: A 1960s Odyssey Philadelphia Museum of Art’s exhibition
STILL PUSHING IT REAL GOOD: Pioneering female hiphop group Salt N’ Pepa is headlining “I Love the ‘90s” alongside classic rap acts like Coolio, 2 Live Crew, Rob Base and Biz Markie, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 24 at BB&T Pavilion, 1 Harbour Blvd., Camden, N.J. For more information or tickets, call 609-365-1300.
of pop art and psychedelia from the civil-rights and anti-war movements, through Sept. 9, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Experiments in Motion: Photographs from the Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a photographic exhibition where artists stop, extend and rearrange time for their own creative ends, through Aug. 19, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-7638100. Face to Face: Art by Women The William Way LGBT Community Center hosts an exhibition of works by queer female artists living in Philadelphia, through Aug. 31, 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220. Face to Face: Portraits of Artists Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition exploring how photographers helped craft the
public personas of their creative subjects in this stunning collection of rare photographs from the museum’s collection, through Oct. 14, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215-763-8100. IN THE PUBLIC EYE: Philadelphia’s LGBTQ Community and the Media The William Way LGBT Community Center hosts an archival and photographic exhibition examining the relationship between the mainstream press and the community, through Aug. 31 in the John J. Wilcox Jr. exhibit space, 1315 Spruce St.; 215-732-2220. Josh Blue The comedian seen on “Last Comic Standing” performs through Aug. 18 at Helium Comedy
Club, 2031 Sansom St.; 215-496-9001. KYL/D’s InHale Performance Series The Kun Yang Lin/Dancers give up-and-coming choreographers a well-deserved chance to strut their stuff, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 24 at CHI Movement Arts Center, 1316 S. Ninth St.; 267687-3739. Modern Times: American Art 1910–1950 Philadelphia Museum of Art presents American art epitomizing the early 20th century, through Sept. 3, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100. Rachel Rose: Wil-o-Wisp/The Future Fields Commission Philadelphia Museum of Art presents contemporary video installations
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1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000. Anthony Jezelnik The comedian performs 9 p.m. Aug. 18 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Music Box, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000.
THE HOMECOMING QUEEN: Philly’s acclaimed cabaret performer and star, Martha Graham Cracker, celebrates her return to her high-heeled stomping grounds after months off the scene with “The Welcome Home Show,” 9 p.m. Aug. 18 at TLA, 334 South St. For more information or tickets, call 215-922-1011.
that ruminate on our imagesaturated culture and histories of the past, through Aug. 19, 26th Street and the Parkway; 215763-8100.
Music All Time Low & Dashboard Confessional The alternative rockers perform 6 p.m. Aug. 17 at The Mann Center, 5201 Parkside Ave.; 215546-7900. Reggae in the Park The daylong reggae festival features performances by SOJA, Chronixx, Toots & The Maytals and more, 1 p.m. Aug. 18 at The Mann Center, 5201 Parkside Ave.; 215-546-7900. Warren G The classic gangsta rapper performs 8 p.m. Aug. 19 at TLA, 334 South St.; 215-922-1011. O.A.R. The rock band performs 7 p.m.
Aug. 21 at Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing, 601 N. Christopher Blvd.; 215-922-1011.
to “Black Mirror” 7 p.m. Aug. 19 at Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St.; 215-735-0735.
The Descendants The alt-rock band performs 8 p.m. Aug. 23 at The Fillmore Philadelphia, 29 E. Allen St.; 215625-3681.
Good Grief Nightcap Cabaret hosts Jennie Meroll sharing the first year of grief after the sudden loss of her partner through song and stories, 7 p.m. Aug. 20 at L’Etage, 624 S. Sixth St.; 215592-0656.
Nightlife Peek-a-Boo Revue: Summer Vacation The acclaimed Philly burlesque group performs 8 p.m. Aug. 17 at Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St.; 215-735-0735. Mimi Imfurst Presents Drag Diva Brunch Mimi Imfurst, Bev, Vinchelle, Sutton Fearce and special guests perform 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 18 at Punch Line Philly, 33 E. Laurel St.; 215-606-6555. Shattered Dark Side Burlesque presents a burlesque tribute
Boob Tube Burlesque Greta Grenade leads a burlesque show inspired by favorite TV characters, 9 p.m. Aug. 23 at Franky Bradley’s, 1320 Chancellor St.; 215-735-0735. Happy Bear The bear happy hour kicks off 5-9 p.m. Aug. 24 at Tabu, 200 S. 12th St.; 215-964-9675.
Outta Town Cher The pop icon performs Aug. 1718 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center,
Sharon McKnight The acclaimed singer performs an evening of songs saluting the “late ladies of song” including Martha Raye, Madeline Kahn, Pearl Bailey, Patsy Cline, Ethel Merman and Judy Canova, 8 p.m. Aug. 18 at The Rrazz Room, 385 W. Bridge St., New Hope; 888596-1027. 3 Doors Down & Collective Soul The rock bands perform 8 p.m. Aug. 19 at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa Event Center, 1 Borgata Way, Atlantic City, N.J.; 609-317-1000. Ninotchka The classic comedy starring Greta Garbo is screened Aug. 19-20 at the Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610917-1228. Paula Johns The acclaimed singer performs a Dionne Warwick tribute 8 p.m. Aug. 24 at The Rrazz Room, 385 W. Bridge St., New Hope; 888596-1027. Highlander The classic sci-fi/ fantasy film is screened 9:45 p.m. Aug. 24 at Colonial Theatre, 227 Bridge St., Phoenixville; 610-917-1228. n
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Documentary reveals secret gay and lesbian history of Hollywood By Gary M. Kramer PGN Contributor “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” filmmaker Matt Tyrnauer’s affectionate documentary opening Aug. 17 at the Ritz at the Bourse profiles Scott Bowers, a pimp for stars in Hollywood’s Golden Age who wanted same-sex sex. His client list reportedly included Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and many others. Bowers, now 95, published a book called “Full Service” in 2012, in which he recounted his experiences, several of which are featured in the film. However, Tyrnauer said in a recent phone interview that he doesn’t consider his documentary, which is shot in cinéma-vérité style, to be an “adaptation” of the book. “It’s my take on the Scotty story, which is in some ways different from his own take on the story. I took a documentarian approach. [Everything] on screen was something I inquired about or independently researched. I didn’t depend on Scotty’s memoir for anything other than a roadmap to the people and places.” Tyrnauer said he heard about the “mythic gas station” in Hollywood where Scotty worked and then slowly pieced things together from various comments, such as one Merv Griffin made about “a gas station in Hollywood to go to if you wanted to get ‘into trouble.’” The filmmaker eventually met Scotty (before “Full Service” was published) in Gore Vidal’s dining room. (Tyrnauer is Vidal’s literary executor). “Scotty was there by coincidence,” he recalled. “Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” recounts the 1940s, ‘50s and ‘60s, when Bowers “helped people out” (as he likes to describe his pimping), or occasionally participated in trysts. But the film also shows what life is like for Scotty now, in his 90s, living with his wife Lois in a house that shows what a hoarder he has become. Tyrnauer described his film as “a backand-forth account of a historic life. He provided an alternate history of Hollywood, which I think is invaluable.” The curious will be impressed by the film’s stories (some recounted by hustlers Scotty hired who are still around today), as well as the dozens of archival photographs, film clips and interviews Tyrnauer assembled, including footage from a 1965 drag show. The images reflect beautiful people smiling and appearing happy, and Bowers himself is very open and charismatic. However, “Scotty and the Secret
History of Hollywood” does present a dark period for queer people working in the film industry. “The studios had morals clauses which severely limited the public and private lives of movie stars,” Tyrnauer said. “In addition, the LAPD ran a fascistic sexual Gestapo called the Vice Squad, which had as its primary function the hunting down, extortion and persecution of [queers] — and they were in collusion with the press. It was a dangerous time to be openly or covertly gay in the city of Los Angeles. Scotty was the protector of these extraordinary people’s lives and reputations. In order to live an authentic life — if you
SCOTTY BOWERS AND FRIENDS Photo: Greenwich Entertainment
were a gay or lesbian star who had to live in the closet — you needed someone who was trusted to facilitate your needs. Scotty was a really very helpful figure for this secret society that had to exist in Hollywood in the bad old days.” While many of the actors Bowers helped out are now dead, concerns have been raised about the veracity of all the hookups. Tyrnauer dismissed them, saying, “Gore Vidal vouched for him; I had an eyewitness to history in the form of Gore.” But does knowing that Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn had same-sex lovers change one’s opinion of these stars? Tyrnauer, who believes in knowing the full spectrum of a historic person’s life and not “straight-washing” it, turns the question back on itself: “Why is Katharine Hepburn having a lesbian affair ‘dirt’ when her adulterous relationship with Spencer Tracy is not ‘dirt’? That, to me, is a curiously acceptable form of homophobia. The Hepburn-Tracy affair was an adulterous romance, and under McCarthy, a great scandal. But that captured the imagination of the public and became part of the publicity mix of the Tracy-Hepburn myth and legend.” If Tyrnauer sounds defensive of Bowers, it’s because “he wasn’t hurting anybody.” n
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JEWELL WILLIAMS Sheriff on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at First District Plaza, 3801 Market Street, at 9:00 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 Sheriff reserves the right to reject any certified check, attorney’s check or money order that on its face has an expired use date and is presented for payment of the deposit. 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 set by the City of Philadelphia. In no event will the successful bidder be allowed to settle on the property unless all the Sheriff’s costs are paid notwithstanding the final bid. The deposit by any bidder who fails to comply with the above conditions of sale shall be forfeited and the funds will be applied to the Sheriff’s cost, then to any municipal claims that the City of Philadelphia has on the property. Finally, if a balance still remains, a Sheriff’s Distribution Policy will be ordered and the money will be distributed accordingly. No personal checks, drafts or promises to pay will be
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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, 215686-1483 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 NOTICE OF SCHEDULE OF DISTRIBUTION The Sheriff will file in his office, The Land Title Building, 100 South Broad Street, 5th Floor, a Schedule of Distribution Thirty (30) Days from the date of the sale of Real Estate. Distribution will be made in accordance with the Schedule unless exceptions are filed thereto within ten (10) days thereafter. 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
Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1809-305 4647 N 5th St 19140 42nd wd. 1,403 Sq Ft BRT#882021530 IMPROVEMENTS: 2 STORY MASONRY W STORE/ OFFICE Alex M. Tram C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 00389 $136,698.39 Janet L. Gold, Esquire 1809-306 6154 N Lambert St 19138 17th wd. 1,064 Sq Ft BRT#117-N-3-79; OPA#172431800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ernest L. Greenwood, Jr. Known Heir of Ben Gray; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Ben Gray C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 01119 $54,043.84 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1809-307 6549 N Gratz St n/k/a 6549 N Gratz St 19138 n/k/a 19126 50th wd. 1,440 Sq Ft BRT#172293500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mabel Harris; Timothy S. Morton C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 02711 $82,379.49 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1809-308 827 N. Holly St 19104 6th wd. Improvement Area: 1,038 Sq Ft; Land Area: 1,500 Sq Ft OPA#062263800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Sam Martin C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01783 $60,664.42 Brett L. Messinger, Ryan A. Gower, & Paul J. Fanelli 1809-309 2101 Welsh Rd, Unit 11 19115-4944 88th wd. (formerly 56th wd.) 1,320 Sq Ft OPA#888560115 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mildred Keller; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Leo Lyman, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2012 No. 01607 $165,638.84 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-310 8037 Lindbergh Blvd 19153-1109 40th wd. 1,260 Sq Ft OPA#405845100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edith Acey C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 02587 $59,646.21 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-311 1125 Marlyn Rd 191513124 34th wd. 1,218 Sq Ft OPA#344270800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Syreeta Floyd, in Her Capacity as Administratrix and Heir of The Estate of Saafir Khatib-El; Deedryle Khatib-El, in His Capacity as Heir of The Estate of Saafir Khatib-El; Neshia Floyd, in Her Capacity as Heir of The Estate of Saafir Khatib-El; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Saafir Khatib-El, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02681 $134,047.09 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-312 7325 Boreal Pl 191532722 40th wd. 1,360 Sq Ft OPA#406657800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
Gilbert Wright C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01268 $172,206.89 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-313 15103 Endicott St 191161509 58th wd. 1,288 Sq Ft OPA#583179700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kristin Kline, in Her Capacity as Heir of Anne M. Kaiser, Deceased; Jeff Kaiser, in His Capacity as Heir of Anne M. Kaiser, Deceased; Jennifer Kaiser, in Her Capacity as Heir of Anne M. Kaiser, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Anne M. Kaiser, Deceased C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 01288 $193,421.98 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-314 743 S 58th St 191432725 46th wd. 1,140 Sq Ft OPA#463283000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Allen Mccray C.P. April Term, 2013 No. 05096 $112,490.08 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-315 1924 Benton St a/k/a 1924 Benton Ave 191521202 56th wd. 1,080 Sq Ft OPA#562262000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mahdi Dali; Svetlana Dali C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 00555 $153,592.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-316 900 E Ontario St a/k/a 900-04 E Ontario St 19134-1311 33rd wd. 1,608 Sq Ft OPA#331161500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kevin Butler; Sarah J. Butler C.P. August Term, 2015 No. 02202 $84,530.86 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-317 6230 Magnolia St 19144-1611 59th wd. (formerly 22nd wd.) 1,536 Sq Ft OPA#592240000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Janet E. Harvey C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 00560 $92,631.05 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-318 3307 N 6th St 191405647 19th wd. 1,940 Sq Ft OPA#193181800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carlos Colon-Santiago a/k/a Carlos Colon Santiago C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 02077 $51,978.50 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-319 1937 Medary Ave 191411435 17th wd. 1,472 Sq Ft OPA#171318200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sheilynne Cambridge C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 01461 $102,060.85 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-320 5919 N Camac St 191413225 49th wd. 1,440 Sq Ft OPA#493165900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jarrett D. Campbell a/k/a Jarrett Campbell C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01946 $100,138.23 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1809-321 413 E Slocum St 191191946 22nd wd. 1,132 Sq Ft OPA#222057300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert A. Smallwood; Alice Z. Smallwood C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 01848 $136,725.91 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-322 3 N Chris Columbus Blvd, TD403, a/k/a 3 N Christopher Columbus Blvd, Apt TD403 19106 5th wd. 1,300 Sq Ft OPA#888061508 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eglise Gutierrez C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 02498 $293,124.14 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-323 6123 Algard St 191353509 55th wd. 1,120 Sq Ft OPA#552359500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Aisha Spain C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 01401 $79,661.17 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-324 1023 Mountain St 191481119 1st wd. 1,080 Sq Ft OPA#012309300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Chett Farbstein C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 00336 $169,174.83 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-325 7470 Brockton Rd 191512910 34th wd. 1,368 Sq Ft OPA#343146348 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dana L. Jorden and Clifford D. Jorden, Jr C.P. January Term, 2011 No. 00762 $103,198.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-326 9276 Darlington Rd 19115 63rd wd. DET 2 STY MASONRY + OTHER; 1,979 Sq Ft BRT#632219400 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mary Berardi f/k/a Mary Colavita and Bruno Berardi C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 01974 $240,730.78 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1809-327 2531 E Dauphin St 19125 31st wd. 1,699 Sq Ft OPA#313095200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eugene Bryan; Denise Bryan C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01782 $95,656.77 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-328 1670 E Walnut Ln 19138 10th wd. ROW CONV/APT 2 STY MASON; 1,660 Sq Ft BRT#102154600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Kimberly A. Rykard, Known Surviving Heir of Helen Rykard and Unknown Surviving Heirs of Helen Rykard C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 02368 $153,633.64 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1809-329 229 Chestnut St Apt 2 19106 5th wd. RES CONDO 5 + STY MASONRY; 737 Sq Ft BRT#888049192 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Katie Mcgowan C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 02601 $238,137.43 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1809-330 4161 Apple St 191271617 21st wd. 1,721 Sq Ft OPA#211253200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rebecca Ann Rudolph C.P. February Term, 2018 No.
03145 $142,828.74 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-331 6524 Chew Ave 19119 22nd wd. ROW 2 STY MASONRY; 1,312 Sq Ft BRT#221253000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Erica Fox a/k/a Erica N. Fox C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02191 $99,826.97 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, LLC 1809-332 6049 Vine St 191391133 34th wd. 1,622 Sq Ft OPA#341036000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rodney Melvin Ray, Jr C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03360 $71,407.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-333 7611 Torresdale Ave 19136 65th wd. ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY; 1,426 Sq Ft BRT#651265400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Lisa Moore C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 01518 $101,062.74 McCabe, Weisberg, & Conway, P.C. 1809-334 2947 Weikel St 191254106 25th wd. 1,134 Sq Ft OPA#252381800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Carlos A. Gonzalez C.P. September Term, 2007 No. 03648 $45,636.99 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-335 4338 Lauriston St 19128 21st wd. 2,103 Sq Ft BRT#21-2-1457-00; OPA# 212145700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles Malloy a/k/a Charles A. Malloy; Mary Beth Malloy a/k/a Marybeth Malloy C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 00869 $210,604.89 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1809-336 1839 South 23rd St 19145-1937 48th wd. 1,802 Sq Ft OPA#482247800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Enoch O. Badamosi, in Capacity as heir of Oluwakemi Badamosi, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Oluwakemi Badamosi, Deceased C.P. January Term, 2015 No. 00147 $160,821.72 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-337 1314 Glenview St 19111 53rd wd. 1,358 Sq Ft OPA#532151300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ying Chen C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 04433 $110,246.88 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-338 1835 S 55th St 19143 51st wd. 1,434 Sq Ft OPA#514200300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Cherron Powell C.P. October Term, 2015 No. 00633 $86,389.27 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-339 6623 Glenloch St 19135 41st wd. 1,280 Sq Ft OPA#411214200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Deborah Mcglashen C.P. July Term, 2016 No. 01635 $93,001.82 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP
1809-340 97 E Duval St 59th wd. 1,160 Sq Ft BRT#592163100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Juanita J. Cooper C.P. December Term, 2013 No. 03177 $134,246.00 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1809-341 558 N 16th St a/k/a 558 N 16th St, Unit No. 1 8th wd. BRT#888106301 IMPROVEMENTS: CONDOMINIUM UNIT Essie B. Swain C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 01388 $288,032.22 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1809-342 3647 W Crown Ave 19114-1824 66th wd. 1,260 Sq Ft OPA#661187800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shannon M. Sperduto C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 00072 $158,291.60 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-343 342 E Sheldon St 42nd wd. 1,130 Sq Ft BRT#421165900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Sheyla Zapata Alvarez C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 01881 $56,604.92 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1809-344 527 Penny Ln Unit C-5-3, a/k/a 527 Penny Ln Unit #C53 19111-1201 63rd wd. 3,101 Sq Ft OPA#888630202 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Kathleen Chung; Eugene E. Chung C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03385 $248,975.01 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-345 9428 Frankford Ave 19114 57th wd. 2,513 Sq Ft BRT#572372736 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Joseph J. Bannon Sr. and Susan Bannon a/k/a Susan J. Bannon C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 00990 $245,707.04 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-346 818 W Ritner St 19148 39th wd. 1,080 Sq Ft BRT#393348000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Anastasia Lindgren n/k/a Anastasia Crosby and Charles Lawrence Crosby C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 02056 $148,836.91 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-347 2208 Mount Vernon St 15th wd. Beginning Point: Situate on the South Side of Mt. Vernon Street at the distance of One hundred Forty Two feet Westward from the West side of Twenty Second Street OPA#152057500 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY MASONRY Vincent C. Rogers C.P. July Term, 2015 No. 01863 $395,681.22 Patrick J. Wesner, Esquire 1809-348 4326 E Howell St 19135 62nd wd. 1,989 Sq Ft BRT#622176530 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Nicole Ruppert as known Heir of James Ruppert, Deceased; Any and All Known and Unknown Heirs, Personal Representatives and Devisees of James Ruppert C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 02943 $142,628.10 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-349 6740 Lebanon Ave
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SPECIAL NOTE: All Sheriff’s Sales are conducted pursuant to the orders of the Courts and Judges of the First Judicial District. Only properties that are subject to judgments issued by the First Judicial District are listed for sale. By law, the Sheriff’s Office cannot decide if a property can be listed for sale; only the District Courts can order a property to be sold at auction.
SHERIFF’S SALE OF Tuesday, September 11, 2018 1809-301 7334 Woodbine Ave 19151 34th wd. 1,482 Sq Ft BRT#344131900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Jennifer D. Hanna C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 01525 $99,876.63 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1809-302 2332 E Huntingdon St 19125 31st wd. 1,008 Sq Ft BRT#314141900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Carrie Ann Sanford C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 04035 $292,486.57 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1809-303 233 S 44th St 19104 27th wd. 1,750 Sq Ft BRT#272123800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mark A. Young C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02002 $368,517.28 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1809-304 907 S 55th St 51st wd. 1,220 Sq Ft BRT#513010400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Ferdinand Venyris and Lorertta Venyris C.P. November Term, 2015 No. 03199 $48,180.47 Law
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34th wd. 1,291 Sq Ft BRT#344054200 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Jerry Fluellen and Sheila Holloway a/k/a Sheila Fluellen C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 04453 $174,805.51 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-350 204 Lockart Ln 19116 58th wd. 2,807 Sq Ft OPA#582137500 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY John B. Priadka C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 00167 $244,604.86 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1809-351 7043 Vandike St 41st wd. 2,000 Sq Ft BRT#412427500 IMPROVEMENTS: DET 2 STY MASONRY Sequiel Serrano C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 03647 $200,951.54 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-352 6625 Lotus Rd 34th wd. 1,349 Sq Ft BRT#344094800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/GAR 2 STY MASONRY Rosa Thomas C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 03475 $105,625.40 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-353 6655 McCallum St, Unit 112 a/k/a Apt 112 22nd wd. 0 Sq Ft BRT#888220055 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 4 STY MASONRY Tia L. Jordan, Original Mortgagor and Malvern Hall Condominium Association, Real Owner C.P. July Term, 2014 No. 01665 $118,644.80 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-354 4819 Old York Rd 19141 49th wd. 1,871 Sq Ft OPA#491523600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Arlene R. Brown, a/k/a Arlene Brown C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01978 $97,294.05 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1809-355 5808 N Philip St 19120 61st wd. 1,110 Sq Ft OPA#612408900 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Dawn M. Miller C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01425 $53,539.58 Cristina L. Connor, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1809-356 8540 Michener Ave 19150 50th wd. 1,524 Sq Ft OPA#501140400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mary L. Williams, Co-Administratrix of the Estate of Onether Bolden, deceased and Grace L. Taylor, CoAdministratrix of the Estate of Onether Bolden, deceased C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 00136 $45,620.99 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-357 4934 N 7th St 19120 49th wd. 1,200 Sq Ft OPA#491217300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Angela L. Porter C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02785 $54,687.53 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-358 5734 N Marshall St 19120 61st wd. 1,278 Sq Ft OPA#612254800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Richard S. Adderly, Individually and as the Administrator of the Estate of Mamie Adderly,
deceased C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 02846 $88,296.17 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-359 3703 Academy Rd 19154 66th wd. 2,618 Sq Ft OPA#663349600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Timothy Burns, a/k/a Timothy A. Burns; Donna Burns a/k/a Donna B. Burns C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 00573 $100,013.54 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1809-360 555 Fanshawe St 19111 35th wd. 2,500 Sq Ft OPA#353118255 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bolaji Gray C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 02073 $233,416.26 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-361 5612 Ridgewood St 19143 51st wd. 1,032 Sq Ft OPA#513252400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Danielle Wright C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 04106 $43,696.01 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-362 6449 N 15th St 19126 17th wd. 1,832 Sq Ft OPA#172054700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Karen Coston C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02092 $103,055.81 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-363 1924 E Madison St 19134 45th wd. 1,453 Sq Ft OPA#452012600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tracy Hua and Chihung Mu C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 00655 $84,940.56 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-364 1611 E Berks St 19125 18th wd. 1,202 Sq Ft OPA#181210500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Catherine E. Leist C.P. December Term, 2016 No. 03013 $187,108.20 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-365 4119 Comly St 19135 62nd wd. 2,400 Sq Ft OPA#622187100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marguerite Bathold; Immacula Joseph C.P. August Term, 2016 No. 03193 $87,368.13 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1809-366 7355 Rockwell Ave 19111 63rd wd. 2,968 Sq Ft OPA#631112311 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jose Vazquez C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 03208 $206,954.35 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-367 3110 Tyson Ave 19149 55th wd. 2,273 Sq Ft BRT#551328400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephen M. Gallagher C.P. March Term, 2011 No. 02031 $246,858.61 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1809-368 311 Simms St 19116 58th wd. 10,726 Sq Ft OPA#583034800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joseph E. Mortimer, III, as believed heir and/or Administrator to the Estate of Barbara M. Mortimer; Catherine Petrie, a/k/a Kathy Petrie, as believed heir and/or Administrator to the Estate of Barbara M. Mortimer; Unknown
Heirs and/or Adminstrators of the Estate of Barbara M. Mortimer C.P. March Term, 2014 No. 00130 $240,594.88 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1809-369 32 W Manheim St 19144 12th wd. 1,463 Sq Ft OPA#123067600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jennifer Fritzinger a/k/a Jennifer E. Fritzinger C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 01577 $113,597.89 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-370 323 S 3rd St 19106 5th wd. 896 Sq Ft OPA#051058020 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lisa G. Colton a/k/a Lisa Colton C.P. December Term, 2014 No. 01645 $760,181.68 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-371 5333 Kershaw St 19131 3rd wd. 1,131 Sq Ft OPA#442151700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Festus Oriola Ogundoju, Sr. C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 03185 $66,024.49 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-372 12135 Academy Rd, Unit 5 19154 66th wd. 940 Sq Ft OPA#88-8-660505 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mazie Evans C.P. November Term, 2016 No. 00024 $65,000.48 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-373 4977 Sheldon St A 19144 12th wd. 1,035 Sq Ft OPA#121185300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Veronika Mednik and Leonid Mednik C.P. December Term, 2016 No. 01402 $80,806.78 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-374 1913 N Hope St 19122 18th wd. 624.64 Sq Ft BRT#183225300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Karen Lewis C.P. September Term, 2014 No. 03538 $85,959.81 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1809-375 2022 68th Ave 19138 10th wd. 898 Sq Ft BRT#102438100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING James H. Edwards, III C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 01704 $110,734.28 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1809-376 6332 Sprague St 19138 22nd wd. 1,742 Sq Ft OPA#22-1-2796-00 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: PIECE OF GROUND AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED Daytona L. Ritter-Flowers C.P. February Term, 2015 No. 02294 $19,288.42 Christopher J. Pippett, Esquire 1809-377 1534 W 68th Ave North a/k/a 1534 68th Ave 10th wd. 2,453 Sq Ft BRT#101249100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Christopher Atkinson, Personal Representative of the Estate of Isadora C. Atkinson a/k/a Isadora C. Waysom Atkinson a/k/a Isadora Atkinson, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2014 No.
00932 $54,989.23 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1809-378 1046 E Upsal St 19150 10th wd. 2,023 Sq Ft BRT#102327800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Chakeila Dennine Smith C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 00543 $103,081.74 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-379 6536 Cobbs Creek Pkwy a/k/a 6536 Beaumont St 19142 40th wd. 1,550 Sq Ft BRT#403074200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Latifah Salaam C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 02564 $70,305.56 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-380 1246 S 21st St 36th wd. Land: 1,110 Sq Ft; Improvement: 1,110 Sq Ft BRT#361215005 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE 1246 Real Estate, LLC C.P. February Term, 2017 No. 006975 $231,966.09 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-381 7300 Boreal Pl 19153 40th wd. 4,045 Sq Ft BRT#406656100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Patricia A. Collins and Evelyn Daley (now deceased) C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01938 $141,981.52 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-382 1917 S 65th St 19142 40th wd. 1,120 Sq Ft BRT#401202800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Beatrice N. Adigwe a/k/a Beatice N. Adigwe C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 00243 $79,857.18 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-383 2160 Conlyn St 17th wd. 834 Sq Ft (land area); 918 Sq Ft (improvement area) BRT#171137200 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY James Gist C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03323 $82,358.70 Kevin J. Cummings, Esquire 1809-384 4604 Paschall Ave 19143 40th wd. 1,050 Sq Ft BRT#272098800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Estate of Wilbert Settles, c/o Kendall Harris, Executor; Kendall Harris, Executor for the Estate of Wilbert Settles; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Wilbert Settles C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 01782 $57,873.84 Udren Law Offices, P.C. 1809-385 4043 N Broad St 43rd wd. 2,640 Sq Ft BRT#433184500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Shane Turner a/k/a Shane S. Turner C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 03308 $182,509.59 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1809-386 2112 N 58th St 19131 52nd wd. 1,359 Sq Ft BRT#522223300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Nicole Walker-Edwards C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 03163 $107,393.72 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff,
Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1809-387 234 N 3rd St a/k/a 234-38 N 3rd St, Unit 303 5th wd. 0 Sq Ft BRT#888046631 IMPROVEMENTS: RES CONDO 4 STY MASONRY William Mangum a/k/a William Magnum C.P. May Term, 2017 No. 03973 $118,697.34 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-388 1748 Wynsam St 10th wd. 1,990 Sq Ft BRT#102192000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW B/ GAR 2 STY MASONRY Keino E. Kinard and Mary S. Kindard n/k/a Mary E. Allen C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02511 $71,763.81 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-389 22 E Montana St 22nd wd. 943 Sq Ft BRT#221134700 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Joyce D. Johnson, Deceased C.P. April Term, 2017 No. 00729 $75,720.49 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-390 5363 W Berks St 52nd wd. 1,680 Sq Ft BRT#521118300 Amber Jones a/k/a Amber R. Jones, Known Heir of Robin Jones, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner and Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Robin Jones, Deceased Mortgagor and Real Owner C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02177 $175,093.76 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-391 1826 W 68th Ave a/k/a 1826 68th Ave 19126 10th wd. 1,406 Sq Ft OPA#101253400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Florence Katie Thompson a/k/a Folrence K. Thompson C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02936 $93,901.20 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-392 2008 Longshore Ave 19149-1815 54th wd. 1,236 Sq Ft OPA#542037200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Howard Denenberg, in His Capacity as Administrator and Heir of the Estate of Kim L. Denenberg a/k/a Kim Leigh Denenberg a/k/a Kim Denenberg and Heir of Joshua Michael Denenberg, Deceased Heir of Kim L. Denenberg a/k/a Kim Leigh Denenberg a/k/a Kim Denenberg; Melissa Paige Denenberg, in His Capacity as Heir of the Estate of Kim L. Denenberg a/k/a Kim Leigh Denenberg a/k/a Kim Denenberg; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Kim L. Denenberg a/k/a Kim Leigh Denenberg a/k/a Kim Denenberg, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Joshua Michael Denenberg, deceased heir of Kim L. Denenberg a/k/a Kim Leigh Denenberg a/k/a Kim Denenberg C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02286 $94,409.51 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-393 955 E Sanger St a/k/a 955 Sanger St 191241039 35th wd. 1,116 Sq Ft OPA#351225100
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rosemarie Kural, Individually and in Her Capacity as Heir of Mary M. Farmer, Deceased; Unknown Heirs, Successors, Assigns, and All Persons, Firms, or Associations Claiming Right, Title or Interest From or Under Mary M. Farmer, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03215 $62,619.51 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-394 3315 N 2nd St 191405803 7th wd. (formerly 33rd wd.) 1,218 Sq Ft OPA#072089000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Yovanni Ramos C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 01847 $63,801.15 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-395 1549 N Alden St a/k/a 1549 Alden St 191313814 4th wd. 1,350 Sq Ft OPA#043293900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Natalie Munford C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 03571 $54,097.86 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-396 5475 Quentin St 191282818 21st wd. 1,778 Sq Ft OPA#213221570 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tawfik Nakishbendi a/k/a Tawfik F. Nakishbendi, in His Capacity as Administrator and Heir of The Estate of Mary A. Kakishbendi a/k/a Mary Antoniet Nakishbendi; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Mary A. Nakishbendi a/k/a Mary Antoniet Nakishbendi, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01224 $166,181.92 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-397 7204 Briar Rd 191381326 50th wd. 1,086 Sq Ft OPA#501332600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Michelle L. Mcguire C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 03147 $142,992.93 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-398 2755 Maxwell St 191361016 57th wd. 1,152 Sq Ft OPA#571138000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Laura C. Altomari a/k/a Laura Altomari C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 02499 $178,150.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-399 219 Widener St 191201840 61st wd. 1,050 Sq Ft OPA#612122800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Erica Shubert C.P. February Term, 2012 No. 03591 $75,980.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-400 1832 Church Ln 191411320 17th wd. 1,673 Sq Ft OPA#171235500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under John Blanks, Sr a/k/a John A Blanks a/k/a John Andrew Blanks, Sr., Deceased C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02825 $77,072.00 Phelan Hallinan
Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-401 2036 S Darien St 191482339 39th wd. 1,036 Sq Ft OPA#393397200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rebecca Guenzel C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 02484 $60,566.78 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-402 2413 W Toronto St 19132-1333 38th wd. 932 Sq Ft OPA#381316000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Julius B. Small; Marlene Small; Lorraine Small a/k/a Lorraine C.P. April Term, 2015 No. 01619 $67,668.40 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-403 1410 S 54th St 191434905 51st wd. 1,544 Sq Ft OPA#514002500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lillian R. Harris a/k/a Lillian Harris C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 01330 $26,119.72 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-404 45 N Farson St 19139 44th wd. Land: 1,600 Sq Ft; Improvement: 2,096 Sq Ft; Total: 3,696 Sq Ft OPA#44-1-0689-00 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Vance Debose, Jr., Angela Prosser, Reginald Dixon, and Richard Douglas C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 00719 $114,230.61 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1809-405 6705 Lawnton Ave 19126 61st wd. Land: 5,096 Sq Ft; Improvement: 1,300 Sq Ft; Total: 6,396 Sq Ft BRT#611181105 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Robert W. Sobol, solely as heir to the Estate of Norman L. Sobol, deceased and Unknown Heirs of the Estate of Norman L. Sobol C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 01624 $139,863.49 Richard M. Squire & Associates, LLC 1809-406 2002 Stenton Ave 50th wd. 1,280 Sq Ft BRT#171346100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Tamara Reid C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 01285 $153,339.61 Powers, Kirn & Associates, LLC 1809-407 441 Martin St 21st wd. 1,732 Sq Ft BRT#212090700 IMPROVEMENTS: SEMI/DET 2.5 STY FRAME Donald W. Kaiser, Deceased and Mary C. Kaiser a/k/a Mary Christine Kaiser, deceased C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 03148 $106,382.84 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-408 2804 Memphis St 25th wd. 784 Sq Ft BRT#252312800 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 2 STY MASONRY Donna Abele a/k/a Donna Lynn Abele, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 03297 $33,577.30 Milstead & Associates, LLC 1809-409 5922 N Lawrence St 19120 61st wd. 1,000 Sq Ft OPA#612343100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shronda F. Eubanks a/k/a Shronda Eubanks C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 00241 $104,989.24 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-410 5639 Addison St 19143
60th wd. (formerly part of the 46th wd.) 953 Sq Ft OPA#604125200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alexander Ringgold C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 02906 $121,354.76 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-411 1911 S 18th St 19145 48th wd. 1,173 Sq Ft OPA#481249500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Son Lam a/k/a Son Chi Lam C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 02866 $94,762.27 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-412 185 Linton St 19120 61st wd. 1,009 Sq Ft OPA#612143100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marie C. Zamor C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 02097 $74,456.73 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-413 1811 W Godfrey Ave 19141 17th wd. 1,915 Sq Ft OPA#171293100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lester Roberts, his Heirs, Devisees and Personal Representatives and his/her, their or any of their successor in right title and interest C.P. September Term, 2015 No. 03034 $91,952.46 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-414 3708 Vale Ln 19114 66th wd. 3,195 Sq Ft OPA#661320005 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Felix Hoersdig and Teresa Power C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02955 $105,999.37 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-415 4206 Stirling St 19135 55th wd. 1,272 Sq Ft OPA#552049400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Suzanne Mitchell C.P. April Term, 2016 No. 00349 $130,896.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-416 2311 Buckius St 19137 45th wd. 1,152 Sq Ft OPA#453365100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Edward Nowakowski C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 03452 $52,022.85 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-417 5422 Willows Ave 19143 51st wd. 1,223 Sq Ft OPA#513213400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Sonya Riggs C.P. October Term, 2011 No. 00038 $92,674.94 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-418 4302 Deerpath Ln 19154 66th wd. 2,157 Sq Ft OPA#662446000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Harry J. Wexler a/k/a Harry J. Wexler Jr C.P. December Term, 2016 No. 01211 $158,533.98 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-419 4508 N 16th St 19140 13th wd. 1,306 Sq Ft OPA#132122100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Linwood Riley Deceased, Angela Riley Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Linwood Riley Deceased, Eric Riley Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Linwood Riley Deceased, Geraldine Riley Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Linwood Riley Deceased and Priscilla Riley Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of
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Linwood Riley Deceased C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02864 $114,261.79 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-420 6347 Kingsessing Ave 19142 40th wd. 1,095 Sq Ft OPA#401258000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Bung Thi Nguyen C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 00213 $87,822.44 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-421 4605 N Hurley St 19120 42nd wd. 1,200 Sq Ft OPA#421445000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Iris Lopez C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 02054 $27,855.65 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-422 212 Race St Apartment 4B 19106 5th wd. Together with a proportionate undivided interest in the common Elements of 7.5%; 1,690 Sq Ft OPA#888040511 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Melissa A. McCafferty and Brian P. McCafferty C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03538 $239,082.74 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-423 7848 Craig St 19136 64th wd. 6,021 Sq Ft OPA#642058000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ernesto Esteras C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02072 $163,032.13 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-424 1506 Church St 19124 23rd wd. 1,409 Sq Ft OPA#232035900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Marangelys Gonzalez C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 04144 $72,012.44 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-425 945 Pratt St 19124 35th wd. 930 Sq Ft OPA#351120000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gary S. Thompson a/k/a Gary Thompson C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 02207 $47,393.64 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-426 2935 Teesdale St 19152 64th wd. Land: 2,814 Sq Ft; Improvement: 1,440 Sq Ft BRT#641161600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Barbara Ann Cappo a/k/a Barbara Cappo, as Executrix of the Estate of John A. Volpe, Deceased C.P. June Term, 2016 No. 000676 $161,489.51 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-427 6330 Baynton St 19141 59th wd. 5,315 Sq Ft BRT#592190100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Christopher Akison, as Real owner and Administrator of the Estate of Isadora C. Waysome, Atkins, deceased C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 01754 $105,119.87 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-428 15 N 58th St 19139 4th wd. 1,153 Sq Ft OPA#042083800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raymond Anthony Hopkins a/k/a Raymond A. Hopkins C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 03314 $98,940.19 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-429 5633 Rodman St 19143 46th wd. 953 Sq Ft OPA#463026600
IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Beverly Carter Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Dorothy Carter Deceased, Freddie Carter Solely in His Capacity as Hair of Dorothy Carter Deceased, Marvin Carter Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Dorothy Carter Deceased, The Unknown Heirs of Dorothy Carter Deceased, Wanda Johnson Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Dorothy Carter Deceased and Carter Leslie Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Dorothy Carter Deceased C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 02807 $103,579.64 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-430 1143 Levick St 19111 53rd wd. 1,600 Sq Ft OPA#531080700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Tamika Hudson and Troy Hudson C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01648 $163,999.72 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-431 300 Byberry Rd, Apartment 119, Stonebridge Condominium a/k/a 300 W Byberry Rd Unit 119 a/k/a 300 Byberry Rd 19116 58th wd. Together with a proportionate undivided interest in the Common Elements of 0.013%; 642 Sq Ft OPA#888582265 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Joshua Kemp C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 03483 $114,359.42 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-432 3304 Princeton Ave 19149 55th wd. Land: 1,760 Sq Ft; 1,326 Sq Ft BRT#551384000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Kenneth J. Edelman and Shannon Stafford C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 00246 $105,449.09 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-433 4607 Oakmont St 19136 65th wd. 1,145 Sq Ft OPA#651083200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Maritza Melendez; Petra A. Melendez, a/k/a Petra Melendez C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02505 $77,367.47 Cristina L. Connor, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1809-434 5436 Gainor Rd 191313112 52nd wd. 1,912 Sq Ft OPA#522101400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rhonda I. Collins, in Her Capacity as Devisee of Last Will and Testament of Joseph W. Evans; Joseph D. Evans, in Her Capacity as Devisee of Last Will and Testament of Joseph W. Evans; Wade Cherry, in His Capacity as Heir of The Estate of Joseph W. Evans; Wendell Shines, in His Capacity as Heir of The Estate of Joseph W. Evans; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Joseph W. Evans a/k/a Joseph Wendell Evans, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 00554 $153,964.74 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-435 4245 Richmond St 19137 45th wd. 1,628 Sq Ft OPA#453316400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROP-
ERTY Brooke Hebert, a/k/a Brooke A. Hebert; Thomas A. Pera, Jr. C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 00117 $170,357.45 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1809-436 2650 S 65th St 19142 40th wd. 1,463 Sq Ft OPA#406004300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Chu Van Le C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01731 $40,479.17 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1809-437 1603 E Washington Ln 19138 10th wd. 2,940 Sq Ft OPA#102280900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Shawn Cauthon C.P. February Term, 2016 No. 00885 $153,781.69 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1809-438 1921 S Croskey St 48th wd. 765 Sq Ft BRT#482208700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Stephen M. Perry and Mae Perry C.P. July Term, 2012 No. 01114 $12,643.83 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1809-439 1152 Atwood Rd 19151 34th wd. 1,200 Sq Ft OPA#344337900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pauline M. Johnson C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 04060 $45,871.69 Meredith H. Wooters, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC 1809-440 5345 W Columbia Ave 19131 52nd wd. 1,366 Sq Ft OPA#521062500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lea C. Jones C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 00694 $122,700.81 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1809-441 1624 E Eyre St 19125 18th wd. 1,092 Sq Ft BRT#181151600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Charles A. Grone C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 05105 $136,937.54 Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, P.C., Martha E. Von Rosenstiel, Esquire, Heather Riloff, Esquire, Tyler J. Wilk, Esquire 1809-442 5922 Bustleton Ave 19149 62nd wd. 2,048 Sq Ft OPA#621503000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ruth Barreto; Maria Serrano C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 02378 $129,438.28 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1809-443 634 E Godfrey Ave 35th wd. 1,305 Sq Ft BRT#351097300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Roy A. Schroeder C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 00654 $6,636.14 Law Office of Gregory Javardian, LLC 1809-444 8011-8013 Rowland Ave 19136 64th wd. 8,775 Sq Ft OPA#642006000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Safaa Deeb C.P. October Term, 2014 No. 00424 $274,598.65 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1809-445 100-02 W Ashdale St 19120 BRT#871565130 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVE-
MENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Mao N. Pich $155,050.88 Thomas A Capehart, Esquire 1809-447 6836 Ogontz Ave 191382644 10th wd. 1,849 Sq Ft OPA#102009400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Jacinta Stanfield, Individually and in Her Capacity as Adminstratrix of The Estate and Heir of The Estate of William A. Fuller; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under William A. Fuller, Deceased C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 02285 $115,173.89 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-448 5712 Hazel Ave 19143 46th wd. 1,112 Sq Ft OPA#463022500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Raymond Braxton; Yasmeen W. Hamidullah, in Her Capacity as Heir of Mateen Hamidullah a/k/a Mateen M. Hamidullah, Deceased; Mateen Marlon Hamidullah, in His Capacity as Heir of Mateen Hamidullah a/k/a Mateen M. Hamidullah, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Mateen Hamidullah a/k/a Mateen M. Hamidullah, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 01958 $45,449.56 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-449 516 Cross St 191476513 1st wd. 1,112 Sq Ft OPA#011292100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Rosalind Mccrea a/k/a Rosalind C. Mccrea C.P. January Term, 2012 No. 00378 $105,915.37 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-450 6050 Agusta St 191493228 53rd wd. 1,132 Sq Ft OPA#531253800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Oneida Collazo C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 01714 $108,577.02 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-451 6605 N. 13th St 19126 61st wd. 2,000 Sq Ft OPA#611193500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Gregory Brown and Vanessa Brown C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 03314 $121,441.56, plus interest in the amount of $1,422.90 Samantha J. Koopman, Esquire 1809-452 1934 E Venango St 19134 45th wd. 1,152 Sq Ft OPA#452145400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alishia Hanks C.P. December Term, 2017 No. 02321 $82,228.65 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-453 5821 Springfield Ave 19143 3rd wd. 1,272 Sq Ft OPA#034113000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Laborde P.J. Baptiste C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 02447 $93,710.32 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-454 2554 S Ashford St 19153 40th wd. 1,113 Sq Ft OPA#404140700 IMPROVEMENTS:
RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Mohamed A. Jabateh C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 02975 $27,874.87 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-455 4742 Loring St 19136 65th wd. 945 Sq Ft OPA#651026900 Subject to Mortgage IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Stephanie Rios and Felix Rivera C.P. August Term, 2017 No. 00549 $87,030.54 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-456 4124 N Darien St 19140 43rd wd. 625 Sq Ft OPA#433380100 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Nadine L. Jackson C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03720 $56,730.63 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-457 1850 Lindley Ave 19141 17th wd. 1,235 Sq Ft OPA#171067700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Anthony Jenkins Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Louise Jenkins, Deceased, Beverly Jenkins Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Louise Jenkins Deceased and The Unknown Heirs of Louise Jenkins Deceased C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02250 $70,872.37 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-458 3576 Stouton St 19134 45th wd. 816 Sq Ft OPA#452396900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ashley Devlin C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 02293 $46,484.82 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-459 4941 N 7th St 19120 49th wd. 1,218 Sq Ft OPA#491207500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Geneva R. Hogue Deceased, Donald Hogue Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Geneva R. Hogue, Deceased, Myrtle Hogue Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Geneva R. Hogue, Deceased, Doris E. Hogue Individually and in Her Capacity as Heir of Geneva R. Hogue, Deceased, and Lois McFadden Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Geneva R. Hogue, Deceased C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 02077 $43,967.37 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-460 2351 Duncan St 19124 23rd wd. 1,600 Sq Ft OPA#231011200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Adam Elliott Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Richard D. Elliott Sr. Deceased, Joshua Elliott Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Richard D. Elliott Sr. Deceased and Richard Elliott Jr. Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Richard D. Elliott Sr. Deceased C.P. May Term, 2016 No. 02868 $85,846.99 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-461 1301 Kerbaugh St a/k/a 1301 W Kerbaugh St 19140 43rd wd. 976 Sq Ft OPA#433020500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Blanding a/k/a Broadie M. Blanding Deceased and Cynthia Coates Solely in Her Capacity as Heir of Broadie Blanding a/k/a Broadie M. Blanding Deceased C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 02280 $42,085.69 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-462 917 Granite St 19124
35th wd. 930 Sq Ft OPA#351140800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY The Unknown Heirs of Gregory Williams Deceased, Sean Williams Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Gregory Williams, Deceased and Gregory Williams, Jr. Solely in His Capacity as Heir of Gregory Williams, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 00060 $44,632.49 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-463 5618 Addison St 19143 60th wd. 953 Sq Ft OPA#604131900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lillian Meekins a/k/a Lillian E. Meekins C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 01428 $80,150.00 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-464 928 N 67th St 19151 34th wd. 1,440 Sq Ft OPA#344406400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Arthur R. Martin C.P. November Term, 2017 No. 02777 $103,362.94 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-465 259 E Montana St 19119 22nd wd. 1,855 Sq Ft OPA#221154030 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Linda Bunyenyezi C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 00141 $129,615.62 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-466 511 Parnell Pl 19144 12th wd. 1,392 Sq Ft OPA#122016400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Howard Crabbe a/k/a Howard H. Crabbe C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00403 $72,712.13 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-467 6413 Chelwynde Ave 19142 40th wd. 1,120 Sq Ft OPA#406269300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Irene P. Delonis C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 00673 $42,241.56 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-468 1448 McKinley St 19149 54th wd. 1,524 Sq Ft OPA#541070500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Clevan A. Murray C.P. January Term, 2016 No. 02123 $179,603.40 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-469 2235 Pierce St 19145 36th wd. 658 Sq Ft OPA#364097800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Pearly Wiley a/k/a Pearly Mae Wiley C.P. April Term, 2018 No. 02439 $62,673.23 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-470 6520 Dicks Ave 19142 40th wd. 1,184 Sq Ft OPA#406286200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Lynn Y Jones C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01436 $41,163.20 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-471 3329 W Sergeant St 19132 28th wd. 990 Sq Ft OPA#282360300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Brian N. Shaw a/k/a Brian Shaw C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 04404 $83,934.45 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-472 110 W Wildey St 5th wd. Beginning Point: Situate on the 5th Ward of the City of Philadelphia on the Southeasterly corner of Wildey Street (formerly called
Otter Street) and Hope Street OPA#057180000 IMPROVEMENTS: ROW 3 STY MASONRY Kerrianne Hafer C.P. June Term, 2017 No. 00675 $365,521.22 Patrick J. Wesner, Esquire 1809-473 3418 Kip St 19134 7th wd. 968 Sq Ft OPA#073088700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Eugenio Torres C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 02531 $51,626.27 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-474 8846 Blue Grass Rd 19152 57th wd. 3,357 Sq Ft OPA#571195300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Grace O. Ruiz C.P. March Term, 2017 No. 02927 $85,964.25 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-475 5735 Knox St 19144 59th wd. 2,192 Sq Ft OPA#593176500 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Veronika M. Mednik C.P. February Term, 2018 No. 03150 $110,538.02 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-476 6144 Wheeler St 19142 40th wd. 1,216 Sq Ft OPA#402183800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY William Cooper and Terra Cooper C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 03025 $42,608.57 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-477 411 Shurs Ln 19128 21st wd. 974 Sq Ft BRT#212043200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE Scott P. Burke C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 04255 $131,346.23 Stern & Eisenberg PC 1809-478 834 E Sanger St 19124 35th wd. 1,438 Sq Ft OPA#351199300 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Leroy V. Byrd, Jr., Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Leroy V. Byrd, Sr., deceased and Lewis J. Byrd C.P. September Term, 2016 No. 02613 $118,603.54 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-479 1127 W Wingohocking St 19140 49th wd. 2,552 Sq Ft OPA#491011700 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Albert William Boyd, deceased, Christopher R. Boyd, Known Heir of Albert William Boyd, deceased and Sir Albert W. Boyd, II, Known Heir of Albert William Boyd, deceased C.P. January Term, 2017 No. 00027 $55,873.61 Shapiro & DeNardo, LLC 1809-480 5023 Chancellor St 19139 60th wd. 972 Sq Ft OPA#602058900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Keith Moody C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 03262 $63,955.35 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-481 6414 Musgrave St 19119 22nd wd. 1,799 Sq Ft OPA#221229600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY James L. Woodrit III a/k/a James L. Woodrit C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 01816 $85,232.44 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-482 2836-2838 W. Girard Ave
19130 29th wd. 2,580 Sq Ft OPA#882023600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Alson Alston C.P. August Term, 2008 No. 03084 $537,088.70 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-483 3813 Manayunk Ave 19128 21st wd. 3,002 Sq Ft OPA#212123600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Heather M. Smith C.P. January Term, 2018 No. 01244 $147,140.65 Justin F. Kobeski, Esquire; Manley Deas Kochalski LLC 1809-484 6835 Greenway Ave 19142 40th wd. 10,954 Sq Ft OPA#884792300 Subject to Mortgage Subject to Rent IMPROVEMENTS: INDUSTRIAL WAREHOUSE MASONRY Helene Mantovani C.P. June Term, 2018 No. 00799 $240,511.95 Steven J. Adams, Esquire; Stevens & Lee 1809-485 2410 S 63rd St 191422906 40th wd. 1,013 Sq Ft OPA#402126900 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Adalberto Garcia C.P. March Term, 2018 No. 01685 $24,960.21 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-486 6133 Spruce St 191393741 3rd wd. (formerly 46th wd.) 1,480 Sq Ft OPA#031121400 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Helen Dixon-Thorne, in Her Capacity as Heir of Rosie T. Dixon, Deceased; Thomas Dixon, in His Capacity as Heir of Rosie T. Dixon, Deceased; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Rosie T. Dixon, Deceased C.P. March Term, 2015 No. 03225 $77,458.42 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-487 4524 Tyson Ave 191351837 41st wd. 1,530 Sq Ft OPA#412041800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Patricia Dolberry a/k/a Patricia M. Dolberry, Individually and in Her Capacity as Administratrix of The Estate of Crystal Ogden a/k/a Crystal Renee Ogden; Shawntae R. Thompson a/k/a Shawntae Thompson, in Her Capacity as Heir of The Estate of Crystal Ogden a/k/a Crystal Renee Ogden; Allen Isaiah Thompson a/k/a Allen Thompson in His Capacity as Heir of The Estate of Crystal Ogen a/k/a Crystal Renee Ogden; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Crystal Ogden a/k/a Crystal Renee Ogden, Deceased C.P. September Term, 2017 No. 03268 $146,694.14 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-488 5028 Pennway St 191243508 23rd wd. 1,235 Sq Ft OPA#233096200 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Franklin Guzman C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 03181 $65,347.52 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-489 4632 Oakland St 191243126 23rd wd. 1,492
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Term, 2015 No. 04115 $82,551.17 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-495 4025 Bennington St 19124 33rd wd. 1,254 Sq Ft OPA#332298800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Frank Lark; Sandra Vann Lark a/k/a Sandra Vann C.P. May Term, 2014 No. 00030 $106,776.08 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-496 4104 Elbridge St 191353003 55th wd. 1,280 Sq Ft OPA#552082600 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ethel Espinoza Ross a/k/a Ethel P. Espinoza C.P. July Term, 2017 No. 00369 $91,712.78 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-497 5819 Ellsworth St 19143 3rd wd. 953 Sq Ft OPA#033131000 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Johnnett Loguidice C.P. October Term, 2017 No. 01471 $48,351.61 KML Law Group, P.C. 1809-498 229 S 58th St 191393810 60th wd. (formerly 46th wd.) 990 Sq Ft OPA#604285800 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY Ihoc LLC; Unknown heirs, successors, assigns, and all persons, firms, or associations claiming right, title, or interest from or under Charles W. Johnson, Jr a/k/a Charles W. Johnson a/k/a Charles W. Johnson IV, Deceased; Unknown Successor Administrator of The Estate of Charles W. Johnson, Jr a/k/a Charles W. Johnson a/k/a Charles W. Johnson, Deceased C.P. October Term, 2016 No. 03576 $16,733.43 Phelan Hallinan Diamond & Jones, LLP 1809-499 2244 S 9th St 39th wd. 965.56 Sq Ft BRT#393430500; PRCL# 31S21-360 IMPROVEMENTS: RESIDENTIAL DWELLING Allen E.
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